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ii The Ultimate Player’s Guide to Minecraft

The Ultimate Player’s Guide to Minecraft,

Second Edition
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Contents at a Glance
Introduction 1

CHAPTER 1 Getting Started 5

CHAPTER 2 First-Night Survival 25

CHAPTER 3 Gathering Resources 53

CHAPTER 4 Mining 77

CHAPTER 5 Combat School 93

CHAPTER 6 Crop Farming 119

CHAPTER 7 Farming and Taming Mobs 145

CHAPTER 8 Creative Construction 159

CHAPTER 9 Redstone, Rails, and More 185

CHAPTER 10 Enchanting, Anvils, and Brewing 223

CHAPTER 11 Villages and Other Structures 245

CHAPTER 12 Playing Through: The Nether and The End 263

CHAPTER 13 Mods and Multiplayer 285

Index 311
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Table of Contents
Introduction to the Second Edition 1
What’s in This Book 2
How to Use This Book 4
Crafting Recipes 4
There’s More Online… 4

Chapter 1 Getting Started 5

Registering and Downloading 5
Registering a Mojang Account 7
Purchasing Minecraft 8
Launching Minecraft 10
Starting a New Game 13
Choosing a World-Generation Style 15
Singleplayer Game Modes 17
Seeding Your World 19
About Snapshots 20
Controls 21
The Bottom Line 23

Chapter 2 First-Night Survival 25

Survive and Thrive 25
Head for the Trees 27
Using Your Inventory 29
Build a Crafting Table 31
Let’s Build Some Tools 32
Creating a Shelter 36
The Furnace Is Your Friend 40
Let There Be Light 41
Slumber with Lumber 44
Tools and Their (Over)Use 47
A Bit About Achievements 48
What Is This “Bonus Chest” You Speak Of? 49
The Bottom Line 50
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Chapter 3 Gathering Resources 53

Introducing the HUD 53
Improving Your Tools 57
Chests: Safely Stash Your Stuff 60
Avoiding Monsters 62
Hunger Management 64
Your Mission: Food, Resources, and Reconnaissance 66
Food on the Run 68
Finding a Building Site 69
Using the Creative Mode Inventory 73
The Bottom Line 76

Chapter 4 Mining 77
Dig Deep, My Friend 77
The Mining Layer Cake Guide 79
Lava Lakes and Other Pitfalls 82
Descending to Layer 11 84
The 2×1 Ladder Descent 84
The Straight Staircase 86
The Spiral Staircase 87
Layouts for Fast, Efficient Mining 88
Staying Safe While You Mine 91
The Bottom Line 92

Chapter 5 Combat School 93

Introducing the Menagerie 94
Zombies 94
Spiders 96
Skeletons 97
Cave Spiders 98
Spider Jockeys 99
Chicken Jockeys 99
Creepers 99
Slimes 100
Endermen 101
Zombie Pigmen 102
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Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog 102

Guardians and Elder Guardians 103
Defensive Mobs 104
Snow Golems 104
Iron Golems 105
Mob Target Practice 106
Weapons and Armor 108
Swordcraft 108
Bows and Arrows 109
Armor-All 112
Color Coordinate Your Leather 114
Taking Combat Damage and Healing 115
The Bottom Line 116

Chapter 6 Crop Farming 119

Choosing a Crop 119
Minecraft Bakery 123
Minecraft BBQ 123
Alchemy Eatery 124
Raw Food Diet 124
Eat at Your Own Risk 125
Establishing a Farm 125
Automated Farms 132
Creating a Piston Harvester 136
Sticky Piston Harvesting 139
Creating a Water Harvester 140
Harvesting Other Crops 142
The Bottom Line 143

Chapter 7 Farming and Taming Mobs 145

Farming and Working with Friendly Mobs 145
Using Leads 149
Breeding Animals 150
Dying for Dye? 151
Taming and Riding Horses, Donkeys, and More 152
Armoring Your Horse 154
Loading Up the Pack 155
Riding Pigs 155
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Fishing 156
Ah, the Squid 157
The Bottom Line 158

Chapter 8 Creative Construction 159

Leaving the Cave 159
Building a Custom World 163
Unleashing Your Interior Decorator 165
Building Underwater 172
Protecting Your Perimeter 179
Become a Ditch Witch 179
Mob Pitfalls 181
Thick as a Brick 182
The Bottom Line 183

Chapter 9 Redstone, Rails, and More 185

Seeing Red: A Beginner’s Guide 186
Power Sources 186
Redstone Wiring 190
Powered Blocks 192
Modifiers 194
Repeaters 194
Comparators 196
Output Devices 197
Automatic Doors 200
Vertical Currents 205
Advanced Circuits 206
NOT Gates, aka Inverters 207
OR Gates, or Any Input Will Do 208
AND Gates, Two TRUE 209
Repeater Loops 210
Rail Transport 211
Have Minecart, Will Travel 212
Rolling on Rails 215
Making Tracks and Stations 216
T-Junctions 218
Halfway Stations 218
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A Word About Hoppers 219

The Bottom Line 221

Chapter 10 Enchanting, Anvils, and Brewing 223

Enchanting Wiles 223
Creating and Mining Obsidian 225
Crafting Books 228
Casting Enchantments 228
Improving Enchantment Chances with Bookshelves 230
Earning and Managing Experience 232
Spruce Up Your Weapons 233
Enhance Your Armor 234
Improve Your Tools 235
Hammer It Out with the Anvil 235
Brewing Potions 237
Brewing Up a Storm 240
Enhancing Potions 242
The Bottom Line 244

Chapter 11 Villages and Other Structures 245

Village Life 245
Emerald City: Your Ticket to Trade 248
Hidden Temples and Other Structures 251
Desert Temples 251
Jungle Temples 253
Witch Huts 253
Dungeons 254
Abandoned Mine Shafts 255
Strongholds 255
Ocean Monuments 256
Nether Fortresses 257
Mapping, or There and Back Again 257
Crafting a Clock 260
The Bottom Line 261
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Chapter 12 Playing Through: The Nether and The End 263

Alternate Dimensions 263
Getting to The Nether 266
Portal Magic 267
Surviving the Nether Fortress 271
Nether Mobs 272
The End Game 275
Finding a Stronghold 276
Defeating the Ender Dragon 278
The Bottom Line 283

Chapter 13 Mods and Multiplayer 285

Customizing Your Experience 285
Changing the Skin You’re In 286
Minecraft Skin Editors 288
Skincraft 288
The Skindex 289
Novaskin 289
Resource Packs: Change Your World 290
Mind My Mods 293
Installing Forge Mods 295
Too Many Items 297
More Explosives 298
Super Heroes 299
REI’s MiniMap 299
Legendary Beasts 300
Too Many Mobs 300
Multiplayer Madness 301
Sharing and Joining on a LAN 302
Joining a Multiplayer Server 304
Hosting a Multiplayer Server 307
Spectator Mode 310
The Bottom Line 310

Index 311
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 28 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 invented a
new type of espresso machine called mypressi. He has been using Minecraft since its alpha
release and remains astounded at the unparalleled creativity it engenders. The first edi-
tion of this book was an international bestseller. Stephen is also the author of The Advanced
Minecraft Strategy Guide, published by Que.
 Acknowledgments xi

Dedication
To Mika, my sweet boy, who continues to inspire me with his love of all things Minecraft,
and so much more.

Acknowledgments
Having spent many years wordsmithing, I have to say that my experience writing the first
edition of this book was one of the most enjoyable projects with which I’ve ever been
engaged.
I can point to several reasons.
First, Minecraft truly is an astonishing work of technical art. Its endless limits create a
canvas that can only bring joy to a writer’s soul.
Second, the amazing team at Que created a fabulous support network. I must thank Rick
Kughen for spearheading the effort; Keith Cline for superb copyediting (any typos etcetera
that remain are entirely my own fault); Tim Warner, who made an enormous contribution
to updating the content; Garner Haines also for his contributions; Mark Shirar for the cover
design; and Seth Kerney for keeping the technical edits running smoothly.
Finally, to you, the readers, I owe an enormous debt of gratitude. The first edition of this
book took off like a rocket and brought delight to many a young (and not so young)
Minecrafter’s gameplay.
Thank you all.
xii The Ultimate Player’s Guide to Minecraft

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Introduction to the Second Edition

Imagine a world where the possibilities are the limits of your own imagination!
Welcome to Minecraft, one of the most interesting open-ended games ever produced.
From the first moment I started playing this game, back in the alpha, to today’s extraordinary experi-
ence, Minecraft has developed into a tour de force of absolutely splendid gameplay, one that, with a
little help from this book, anyone can enjoy with countless hours of exploring, creating, and digging.
Before I even thought about writing the first edition of this book, I found it popping up more and
more often in random conversations among all age levels—everyone from my 9-year-old’s best
friends going on up… way up. Minecraft’s unique open-endedness offers an equally open-ended fas-
cination to people of all ages. More than 100 million users as of February 2014, double what it was
this time last year.
The first edition came at a time where there were few reliable online resources. One could spend
hours watching YouTube videos without really going in depth or truly capturing the nuances of the
game. And, among all that, there are literally thousands of junk sites trying to trick you into clicking
on ads or installing malware.
This book fills the gap, bringing together all the key information you need in a single place. Written
from the player’s perspective, it takes you through the essentials and then far beyond, with all the
background information, crafting recipes, strategies, and ideas you need to make your Minecraft
world truly your own. It covers everything from first-night survival to hosting your own multiplayer
server.
For players who’ve read the first edition, we’ve updated the information here to the current 1.8 ver-
sion of Minecraft (at least as far as the latest development snapshot took us), and added many
more tips and tricks to make it worth your while.
So, if you wondered how to sculpt completely customized worlds, explore underwater dungeons,
play Minecraft multiplayer in Spectator mode (and more), this edition has you covered.
If you are a parent wondering whether Minecraft is suitable for your own kids, consider that as
of 2013, students at Viktor Rydberg school in Stockholm, Sweden, have been taking a mandatory
course on Minecraft, teaching them various skills such as
Q Environmental issues
Q City planning
2 Introduction

Q Getting things done

Q Planning for the future
Q Interactivity
Q Safe online habits
Q Building and making objects using your creativity
Q Computer skills

To this list, The Atlantic, in a recent article about the benefits to children of playing
Minecraft, adds:
The most clearly visible are visuospatial reasoning skills—learning how to manipulate
objects in space in a way that helps them create dynamic structures. Visuospatial rea-
soning is the basis for more abstract forms of knowledge like the ability to evaluate
whether a conclusion logically follows from its premises.
Minecraft also helps youth learn how to collaborate to solve problems, and collaborative
learning improves critical thinking skills that support motivation for learning.
No matter who you are or how you play, you’ll find Minecraft to be an endlessly fascinat-
ing, wonderful, enjoyable world.

What’s in This Book

Survive and thrive in Minecraft with 13 chapters of detailed step-by-step guides, tips, tricks,
and strategies. Each chapter in this book focuses on a key aspect of the game, from initial
survival to building an empire. Make the most of your Minecraft world today:
Q Chapter 1, “Getting Started,” walks you through the steps needed to download and
install Minecraft and start a new game, optionally using seeds to control the world gen-
eration.
Q Chapter 2, “First-Night Survival,” is an essential strategy guide to one of the most chal-
lenging times in Minecraft. In this chapter, you learn to craft essential tools and build
your first mob-proof shelter, all in less than 10 minutes of gameplay.
Q Chapter 3, “Gathering Resources,” teaches you the skills you need to build a permanent
base of operations, build better tools, store resources, and find food to stave off hun-
ger. You also learn how to use the built-in GPS so that you can always find your way
home, even after extended forays into the wilds.
 What’s in This Book 3

Q Chapter 4, “Mining,” unlocks some of Minecraft’s deepest secrets. This chapter shows
you the best tunneling plan to uncover the most resourcess in the shortest possible time,
the essential tools required, and the layers you should digg to uncover everything from
basic iron ore to diamonds.
Q Chapter 5, “Combat School,” will get you ready to tackle any mob, including the
creeper. From sword-fighting techniques to armor, this chapter has you covered. You’ll
also learn the essential perimeter protection techniques fo
or your home.
Q Chapter 6, “Crop Farming,” will help you become completely self-sufficient, ensuring
that the hunger bar stays full, constantly boosting your health. Learn to hydrate 80
blocks of farm land with a single water block and how to automate your harvests at the
touch of a button.
Q Chapter 7, “Farming and Taming Mobs,” is all about Minecraft’s passive animals, the
chickens, pigs, cows, horses, and more that populate its world and provide you with
valuable resources. Learn to breed animals, tame ocelots to scare off creepers, and gal-
lop across the world on horseback.
Q Chapter 8, “Creative Construction,” will help you unleash your inner architect. From
grand constructions to inventive interiors, learn about the decorative ways you can use
Minecraft’s blocks and items to build the perfect abode.
Q Chapter 9, “Redstone, Rails, and More,” empowers your world with a host of auto-
mated devices. Control redstone power and automated doors, send minecarts on mis-
sions, and build stations, stopovers, and more.
Q Chapter 10, “Enchanting, Anvils, and Brewing,” will have you brewing up a storm. Cast
spells, improve your weapons and armor, and fall from great heights with grace.
Q Chapter 11, “Villages and Other Structures,” is your key to interacting with the other
nonplaying characters. Trade your way to better goods, and learn the secrets of the
game’s temples and monuments.
Q Chapter 12, “Playing Through: The Nether and The End,” is the strategy guide you need
to get through these tricky sections of the game. Find a fortress fast, get what you need,
and then prepare for the Ender Dragon. It’s easy when you know how.
Q Chapter 13, “Mods and Multiplayer,” shows you how to customize the game, from
new character skins to mods that add a host of functionality. And along the way, you
also learn how to access multiplayer games and set up a permanent world on your own
server for family and friends.
4 Introduction

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.

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Crafting Recipes
You’ll also see that I’ve included crafting recipes throughout this book. I’ve included the
actual ingredients in the text, so just match the pattern you see to create the item, as shown
here for a wooden pickaxe. It’s easy, and you’ll be surprised how quickly you can whip them
up after just a few uses.

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.

It might not look like it on the surface, but each Minecraft world is rich with resources. Making
the most of them is the next step in getting the most out of the game. In Chapter 2, “First-Night
Survival,” you put together a pack of essentials sufficient to last the first night, but this is really just
the smallest prequel to the real game, and describing how to find, create, and use other types of
resources forms much of this book. This chapter is about building the foundation you can use to
launch into the rest of the game. Your focus is on a few key points: build an outdoor shelter, find
food to stave off hunger, improve your collection of tools, and build a chest to safely store items.
This solidifies your position, making your base more impervious to attack, allows you to do all sorts
of Minecrafty things more efficiently, and sets yourself up for longer excursions both above and
below ground.
The good news is that you already have a base, so you can explore during the day, try not to lose
your way, and head back at night. However, you still need to avoid at least some of the hostile mobs
that persist during the day.

Introducing the HUD

Before we start, let’s take a look at the Heads-Up Display (HUD)—that collection of icons and status
bars at the bottom of the screen. Figure 3.1 shows the HUD as it appears in Survival mode with all
possible indicators displayed. (The Creative mode HUD only shows the hotbar.)
54 CHAPTER 3: Gathering Resources

1 4

2 3 5

FIGURE 3.1 The HUD provides key status indicatiions. 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. Hotbar
Each section of the HUD provides a key nugget of information about the health or status of
your avatar:
Q Armor bar—The armor bar appears when you’ve equipped your avatar with any type of
armor and shows the current damage absorption level. Each armor icon represents an
8% reduction in the damage you’ll take, so a 10/10 suit of armor reduces the damage
you take by 80%, whereas a 1/10 suit absorbs only 8%. Armor becomes less effective the
more damage it absorbs, although the rate at which it deteriorates also depends on the
material it’s made of—leather being the weakest and diamond the strongest.
Q Health bar—You have up to 20 points of health available, represented by the 10 hearts
shown. Each time you take damage, from hunger, spider bites, zombie slaps, a fall,
being under water too long, and so on, half a heart or more disappears with a distinc-
tive click noise. Health and hunger have a complicated relationship. You can read more
later in this chapter starting at “Hunger Management.”
Q Experience bar—The experience bar increases the more you mine, smelt, cook, kill hos-
tile mobs, trade with villagers, and fish. Your current level is shown in the middle of
the bar. When it’s full, you move to the next experience level. Experience isn’t generally
important until you start enchanting and giving additional powers to items such as
swords (see Chapter 10, “Enchanting, Anvils, and Brewing”). Unlike other role-playing
games, experience in Minecraft is more like a currency that you spend on enchantments,
so it waxes and wanes. But all experience gained counts toward the final score shown
on the screen when you die. Killing a mob drops experience orbs that either fly directly
toward you or float to the ground waiting for you to collect. You can also gain experi-
ence by smelting certain items in the furnace and carrying out other activities such as
finding rare ores. Dying, however, drops your experience level down to zero.
Q Oxygen bar—The oxygen bar appears whenever you go underwater and it quickly starts
to drop. You can probably hold your own breath for longer! (The world record was 22
minutes by Stig Severinsen!) As soon as your oxygen level hits zero, your health starts
taking a two-point hit every second, but it resurfaces for just an instant if you hold
 Introducing the HUD 55

down the jump key until you’ve reached air once more. Th here’s no danger with deep
dives either. You can use the ability to do interesting thinggs like building an underwa-
ter base. An example is shown in Figure 3.2, and I show yo ou how to build your own in
Chapter 8, “Creative Construction.”

FIGURE 3.2 Underwater bases are impervious to mob attacks (but watch your
oxygen while building it). In fact, the only mobs that spawn underwater outside
of the huge ocean monument structures are squids, which pose no danger to
you.

Q Hunger bar—You also have 20 points of hunger available, as well as a hidden value
called Saturation. Like health, each hunger bar icon holds two points and can reduce by
half an icon (that icon is, incidentally, a shank, or the lower part of a leg of meat) at a
time.
Q Hotbar—These nine slots represent items you can select with the mouse scroll wheel or
by pressing the 1–9 keys. Press E to access your full inventory and to change the items in
these slots. The white number next to some shows that slot’s count of stacked identical
items. A durability bar also appears under each tool’s icon in green, gradually reduc-
ing as you use them until the tool actually breaks and disappears from your inventory.
You’ll have some warning of this because the bar turns red when it’s close to zero. See
“Improving Your Tools” later in the chapter to learn more about the durability of differ-
ent materials.
56 CHAPTER 3: Gathering Resources

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In multiplayer, your HUD also displays a chat window in the bottom-left corner. Press T to
expand the chat window.
Toggle the entire HUD display off and on by pressing F1. Press F3 with the HUD turned on
to view a much more detailed HUD debug screen (see Figure 3.3.)

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The coordinates shown in the debug screen are based on the world’s origin where x=0 and
z=0. (y shows your current level above bedrock.) Take a note of the current values. If you
become lost before you have had the chance to build a bed and reset your spawn point, you
can always find your way back to your original spawn and, presumably, your first shelter, by
facing in a direction that will bring both x and y back to those noted values. If you do sleep
in a bed and reset your spawn, turn on the debug screen and write down the coordinates
shown before you head out. This is particularly useful if you plan on using the teleport
cheat (/tp xxx yyy zzz).
 Improving Your Tools 57

1 2 3

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 direction you are facing and how moving forward will change the current coordinates.
5. The current biome type.
Incidentally, just so we’re clear: Cheatingg in Minecraft doesn’t carry with it the negative con-
notations that cheating does in most other contexts. Provided that you’ve enabled cheats
in the game menu, you can simply type a forward slash (/) followed by the cheat text to
customize the running state of the game. Make sure to press Enterr or Return after you type
your cheat to submit the command to Minecraft.
When you need to return, and I should warn you that this can take some experimentation
and a little practice, turn and take a few steps while noting the change in values of your
current coordinates. Shift those x and z values back toward the coordinates you originally
recorded. You’ll probably wander around a bit, but eventually you’ll get there.

Improving Your Tools

Wooden tools wear out fast, so it’s best to upgrade your kit as quickly as possible.
Each type of material has a different level of durability. Think of durability as the number of
useful actions the tool can perform before wearing out completely and disappearing from
58 CHAPTER 3: Gathering Resources

the inventory. I’ve included the durability in parenthesess after each material’s description,
listed from least to most durable:
Q Gold (33)—Although this is the least durable materiial, gold happens to be the
most enchantable material, so you can imbue it withh superpowers (see Chapter 10,
“Enchantments, Anvils, and Brewing”). But given thaat gold is about five times as rare
as iron, and gold can be used to craft many other useful items, I wouldn’t recommend
using it for tools.
Q Wood (60)—It’s easy to obtain, especially in an emergency above ground, but wooden
tools can’t mine the more valuable ores such as iron, gold, diamond, and redstone. You
will need a pickaxe of any kind to mine stone because digging with bare hands will just
break the stone down into unusable dust.
Q Stone (132)—With over twice the longevity of wood, stone makes a great starting point
for more serious mining and other activities. Stone tools are built from cobblestone
blocks, which in turn come from stone. That may seem a little confusing, but it will
seem natural enough after a while.
Q Iron (251)—Iron will be your go-to material. It is found from Bedrock, up to about
20 levels below sea level. Iron is used for building all kinds of tools, implements, and
devices including armor, buckets (for carrying water, lava, and milk), compasses, mine-
carts, and minecart tracks. All these require at least iron ingots obtained by smelting
the ore in a furnace, with each block of ore producing one ingot. Ingots and many other
items are found scattered throughout the world in village chests, mine shafts, dungeons,
and strongholds. You might also find them dropped from killed zombies, and iron
golems if you dare tackle them.
Q Diamond (1562)—It’s the strongest material of all, but also the most expensive given
that diamonds are relatively rare (about 25 times as scarce as iron). A diamond pickaxe
is the only kind that can successfully mine obsidian, a material required for creating the
portal to reach The Nether dimension. Use iron pickaxes as much as possible and only
switch to diamond when you need to mine obsidian.. You’re better off saving any dia-
monds you find for weapons, armor, and enchantment tables.

NOTE
Different Materials for Different Items

Dura abilityy appliies

s to all too
ols,
ls weapponss, an
nd arrmor,
or altthooughh tthe
he
ere
e are difffe
ere
enc
ces
i the
in h matterrials
i l th hatt cann be useed to
o make
ke mostt items.
i F r exa
For e ample,
pl yyoou can n cra
aft
ft
lea
athherr arm mor an nd make e stoone
e too
ols
s, bu
ut ca
ann’’t maake sttonne arrm
rmor or craft leattheer
toools
ls.
 Improving Your Tools 59

CAUTION
Don’t Let Tools Wear Down to Nothing

Tryy nott to lett a toool beecoome so worrn it acctu

ually bre
eakks doown co ompletely an nd disa ap-
pearrs. In nstteaad, pla
ace two off the e samme typ
pe of wornn too ols
s in
n the
t e crafttin
ng g
grrid
d to co
om-
bin ne th
heiir reemaininng stre engtth in
nto
o ano
oth
her and givee itt a seccond
ondd sho
ot att busting g blo
ocks
s.
It’s
It ’s rec
cyc
yclin
lingg, Mine
i ecrraft
f sttyyle
le.

The recipes for crafting tools from all materials are identical, except for the replacement of
the head of the implement with the material of choice:

Q To make a stone pick, you need two wooden sticks for the handle and three cobble-
stone blocks.

Q Replace in the same way for the axe and the sword.

Q You might also want to add a shovel to your collection, because it’s about four times
faster than using hands to harvest softer materials such as dirt, gravel, sand, clay, and
snow, and helps some of those blocks deliver resources rather than just breaking down.

As you craft more items, you need to find somewhere to store those you don’t need to use
right away. You should also store other resources and food you come across on your travels.
That comes next.
60 CHAPTER 3: Gathering Resources

Chests: Safely Stash Your Stuff

Whenever you head away from your secure shelter, theree is always a reasonably high risk of
death. Creepers, lava pits, long falls—they can all do youu in. Respawning is only a moment
away, but the real danger here is that any items you’ve collected and carry in your char-
acter’s inventory drop, floating in the air at the location of your untimely death. But they
won’t wait there forever. About five minutes real time reemains before they vanish forever.
If the site of your death proves impossible to return to inn that time, your hard-earned tools
and supplies may be lost.
Chests act as an insurance policy. Put everything you don’t need in a chest before you
embark on a mission, and those things will be there when you get back or after you
respawn.
The natural place to leave chests is in your shelter, but you can also leave them elsewhere,
perhaps as a staging point as you work away in a mine, or even outside. Mobs will leave
them alone, and the only real risk you face is leaving them out in the open on a multiplayer
server or getting blown up from behind by a creeper in Singleplayer mode while you’re rum-
maging around inside.
Chests come in two sizes: single and double. A single chest can store 27 stacks of items.
Create a double chest by placing two single chests side by side. The double chest stores up
to 54 stacks of items. Given that a stack can be up to 64 items high, that’s an astonish-
ing potential total of 3,510 blocks in a crate that takes just 2×1 blocks of floor space. If
you’ve ever followed the Doctor Who TV series, consider chests the TARDIS of storage! Or in
Dungeons & Dragons terms, it’s a Bag of Holding. I show you a chest in one of my personal
“hidey holes” in Figure 3.4.

FIGURE 3.4 A furnace at left and a storage chest at right.

 Chests: Safely Stash Your Stuff 61

Create a chest at your crafting table with eight blocks of wood

den planks arranged around
the outside, leaving a space in the middle.
Place and then right-click the chest to open. You can then move items back and forth
between your inventory and the chest. In Figure 3.5, I’ve transferred all the items I don’t
need for the next expedition.

FIGURE 3.5 Chests act as an insurance policy for your items so that 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.

Before you head out, you should know two other things: how to avoid monsters, and how
to deal with hunger. Read on.
62 CHAPTER 3: Gathering Resources

THE CONNECTED CHEST

Chesstts
s are
e unddooubt
btted
dly
ly use
efu
ful;
l it’’s diffic
difficult to
to surr viive
e wittho
houtt the
hem. Butt you
u can
n’tt
tra
ans
sporr t a ch
hest
est’s
s co
onte entts with
h you u.
Entter the En ndeer che estt, whhicch is
s liikee stooraage inn th
he clo oudd. Ann Ende er ch hestt issnn’tt chhea ap
to makke. You’ll ’ll need d eig
ight
ht Obsid
b iddiaian bloc
bl cks ob bta
ain
ined
d by com mbbining
bin i g lav
l va withi h wate er,, or
thrrouugh re egula
ar min nin
ng annd cavvin ng,
g and d one Eyye off End der,
r coollec
ollec cte
ed frrom
m co ombiniing g
Endeder Pe
Pearlsls froom dow wned En Ender
d rmen n witth Blaze
l e Pow wder in th he crraffting
ti g tab ble
le, and
you u cann’tt get Blaaze Po owdeer with houtt fiirsst heead
dinng too The Netthe the er dim mennsion n. So wh hatt’s
s
so goo od aboboutt End der ch hessts
ts? All off the
them acc cess s the
he same vir ir ttu
uall che
hestt, sh harin ing all
contten nts
s bettwee en thhem. So le ett’’s saay thhatt you
u’vve buuiltt multtiple
iple dw wellinggs ac crosss yo our
vas st worrldd andd tha
hat yo ou havve so ome ittem ms—a fe few favvorrites
it s—th hatt you u’d
d like
like to be be ab ble
le
to ac ccesss an nywwhere e youu go. Pla ace an n Ende er chhestt in
n each h of
of yourr dwellings s and an ny
ittems thatt you u plaace e in anny off the e ches sts
s beccome avvaiilable e iin
n all oth herss. Itt’s
s likee quan n-
tum m trravvel witho outt all th
hatt enttang gle
emen nt buusineess.

Avoiding Monsters
There’s a key difference between the Minecraft world on the first and second days. In a
word, mobs (hostile ones, to be specific). Mobs only spawn in dark areas, and some only
during the night, so if you are outside during your first day and stay in well-lit areas, you’ll
be reasonably safe. By the second day, however, mobs have had a chance to build their
numbers and wander about. It’s not that likely you’ll encounter them on day 2, but it’s best
to be prepared.
There are 27 types of hostile mobs: Enderman, Iron Golem, The Wither, Creeper, Ender
Dragon, Zombie, Baby Zombie, Zombie Villager, Endermite, Giant, Blaze, Slime, Wither
Skeleton, Ghast, Silverfish, Witch, Human, Skeleton, Spider, Cave Spider, Wither Skeleton
Jockey, Magma Cube, Spider Jockey, Zombie Chicken Jockey, Guardian, and Elder Guardian.
Of those, here 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 caves all hours of the day or night. They are rela-
tively easy to defeat, and if any come after you from out of the shadows, just head to a
well-lit area and keep your distance while they burn up in the sun.
Q Skeletons—Skeletons also burn up in sunlight unless wearing a helmet, and they can
survive at any time in lower light conditions. They’re quite deadly with a bow and arrow
and best avoided for now.
Q Spiders—Spiders come in two variants: large or cave. You’ll probably only see the larger
spiders at this stage. They are passive during the day but become hostile in shadow and
 Avoiding Monsters 63

can attack at any time if provoked. They’ll climb, they’ll ju

ump, and they are pretty darn
fast. Fortunately, they’re also easy to kill with some swift sword attacks. The blue spi-
ders are a smaller, poisonous variant called cave spiders. They live only in abandoned
mine shafts underground, but in substantial numbers. If you suffer from arachnopho-
bia, I don’t have much good news for you, except that witth a little time you’ll get used
to them and they won’t seem quite so nasty.
Q Creepers—Creepers have a well-earned reputation as the Minecraft bad guys. They are
packed to their green gills with gunpowder, and they’ll start their very short 1.5-second
fuse as soon as they are within three blocks of you. Their explosion can cause a lot of
real damage to you, nearby structures, and the environment in general. If you hear a
creeper’s fuse—a soft hissing noise—but can’t see it, run like heck in the direction you’re
facing. Remember to sprint by double-tapping and holding your W key. With a little
luck, you’ll get three blocks away and the creeper’s fuse will reset. Creepers are usually
best dealt with using a ranged attack from a bow and arrow. However, if you sprint at
them with an iron or diamond sword and take a swipe at just the right moment, you
can send them flying back out of their suicidal detonation range, causing the fuse to
reset. Most creepers despawn around noon, leaving the afternoon generally free of their
particular brand of terror.
Q Slimes—Slimes spawn in the swamp biome and in some places underground. They ini-
tially spawn as small, medium sized, or quite large Jello-like green blocks and are more
than capable of causing damage. Attacking eventually breaks them up into 2–4 new
medium-sized slimes. These can still attack but are relatively easily killed, only to spawn
a further 2–4 tiny slimes each. These don’t cause any attack damage, but may still push
you into peril if you’re unlucky.

If you come across a lone spider, a zombie, or even a slime, now is as good a time as any to
get in some sword practice. Just point your crosshairs at the creature and strike with the left
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

Gettiingg mobbe ed byy mobs?? Clic

ck Esc
c to op
pen th
he Op ptiion
ns windo
indo
ow and d chan
nge
e yourr
difffic
cultty leve
el to Peeace
efu
ul. This
s desp
paw
wns all hosttile
e mobs s and alllow
ws you
ur he
ealth
h to
reggene era atee.
64 CHAPTER 3: Gathering Resources

So how do you avoid mobs? Use these tips to survive:

Q Stay in the open as much as you can, avoiding heaviily wooded areas if possible.
Q Most mobs have a 16-block detection radar. If they can also draw a line of sight to your
position, they will enterr Pursuitt mode. (Spiders can always detect you, even through
other blocks.) At that point they’ll relentlessly plot and follow a path to your position,
tracking you through other blocks without requiringg a line of sight. Pursuit mode stays
engaged
g g much farther than 16 blocks.
Q Keep your sound turned up because you’ll also hear mobs within 16 blocks, although
creepers, befitting their name, are creepily quiet.
Q Avoid skirting along the edges of hilly terrain. Creepers can drop on you from above
with their fuse already ticking. Try to head directly up and down hills so you have a
good view of the terrain ahead.
Q Mobs are quite slow, so you can easily put some distance between them and yourself by
keeping up a steady pace and circling around to get back to your shelter. Sprint mode
will leave them far behind.

CAUTION
Sprinting Makes You Hungry

Sprin
nt mod de burrns s up hun
nge
er poin
nts
s, so
o tryy to us
se it onlyy in em
merg
gen
ncies (and
d iff you
u
havve fo
food
d re
eaddy)).

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 lowers your hit points, leaving you vulnerable, 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. The latter provides a buffer to the hunger bar, decreas-
ing first. In fact, your hunger bar doesn’t decrease at all until saturation reaches zero. At
that point, you see the hunger bar start to jitter, and after a short while it takes its first hit.
Saturation cannot exceed the value of the hunger bar, so with a full hunger bar of 20 points,
it’s possible to have up to 20 points of saturation. However, a hunger level of 6 points also
only provides a maximum of 6 points of saturation, and that makes you vulnerable.
 Hunger Management 65

You’ll find some key information about the hunger system herre:
Q On Easy and Normal Survival modes, there is no need to worry too much about hunger
because your character won’t drop dead from it. If you’re close to home and pottering
around in your farm or constructing some building extenssions, you’re fairly safe, but
your health starts to drop. Eat something as soon as you can to fill your hunger bar and
start rebuilding your health.
Q Sprinting
p g isn’t p
possible when the hunger
g bar drops
p below 6 hunger
g p points,, or 3 shanks,,
as shown in the HUD.
Q Keeping a relatively full stomach at 18 hunger points (9 shanks in the HUD) allows
health to regenerate at 1 point (half a heart) every 4 seconds.
Q Health depletes if the hunger bar drops to 0, increasing the risk of dying from one of the
many imaginative ways Minecraft has on offer (see Figure 3.6).

FIGURE 3.6 The effects of extreme hunger on Normal difficulty: health depletes
to just one point, or half a heart.

Q Some limits apply to the amount health can drop according to the difficulty level. On
Easy, health cannot deplete from hunger further than 10 points, or half the full quo-
tient. On Normal, it drops to 1 point, which is an extreme level of vulnerability. On
Hard difficulty, there are no limits; don’t ignore the hunger bar, or death from starva-
tion could be just moments away. See “Food on the Run” later in this chapter to help
avoid this.
66 CHAPTER 3: Gathering Resources

Your Mission: Food, Resources, and

Reconnaissance
Your second day is the perfect opportunity to gather foo od and other resources and to take a
quick survey of the landscape surrounding your first sheelter, in particular to find somewhere
suitable for your first outdoor shelter. Keep an eye out for any of the following:
Q Passive mobs—Chickens, pigs, rabbits, and cows all provide a ready source of food, raw
or cooked,
k d although
lth h cooked
k d meatt restores
t more hhunger points.
i t C Cows also
l ddrop lleather
th
that you can use for your first armor, and when you have an iron bucket, cows can be
milked, giving you an instant cure for poisoning. Chickens also lay eggs, so gather any
that you find.
Q Natural harvest—The harvest includes cocoa pods, apples, sugar cane, carrots, wheat
and potatoes (found in villages), and seeds. Knock down tall grass (see Figure 3.7) to
find seeds. When you plant the seeds, they mature into wheat within 5–8 day/night
cycles. From wheat, it’s easy to bake bread, one of the simplest but most effective
sources of food, especially if there are no passive mobs nearby. See Chapter 6, “Crop
Farming,” for more on agricultural techniques.
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:
Q Wood—Wood is always useful, both for crafting and, at a pinch, for fueling your fur-
nace, converting into charcoal and then creating torches.
Q Sand—Sand can be smelt into glass blocks which can be used as is or turned into
glass panes to allow daylight into your shelter.
Q Coal—Coal is used to fuel your furnace and to make torches. You can often see it in
veins on the surface of the walls of small caves or on the sides of cliffs. If you can
safely get to it, make like a miner and dig it out.

TIP
Making Use of Bones

The morrningg sun n burnns up p skeleeto ons,

s le eavvinng be ehind boone es ttha
ha
at you caan craft into o
bonee meall. Bone e meal actts as a fertif iliz
lizerr, helpi
l ing
g youur crops s groow fa
faste
er. Much h
fas
ste
er! You
u can n alsso use e bon ne to
o tame e wolvves s (ch
hannging them m intto doggs)), prrovviding
g
you
u witth an exxttra lev
l vell of prrottec
ctio
tion. Chap ptte
er 7 has s a lott mooree in
info
formaation
ti n on bre eed
d-
ing
g and
d tammingg mobs in Min neccra
aftt.
 Your Mission: Food, Resources, and Reconnaissance 67

FIGURE 3.7 Knock down grass to gather seeds to plant wheat, an easy crop
to farm and then to turn into bread—a handy food if you’re stuck with no other
options.

Start early, heading out with a stone sword at the ready, just in case. If you are low on
wood, swing an axe at a few nearby trees.
Move carefully so that 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

Itt’s
s eas
sy to
o bec come lost inn Min
ine
necrrafft.
t Runn helteer-
r-skkelter fro
om you ur bas
se,
e, chaase a he erd
d
of livves
sto
ockk, disc
covverr a natu
ura
al cave e sys
yste
em, orr taake a sh hott aacross
s the
e sea a like
e tha
at
fam med Norrse eman,
an Leiff Eriks
sso
on.
n Itt’s
s all pa
artt of the Mine ecraaft ch
cha
harm
m. Butt don n’tt bec
come
Columl mbus ini th
he prooce ess.

A few
wqqu
uic
ck tip
ps:

Q When n you arre ab blee, crrafft a compa ass.

ss It taake
es som me red ds
sto
to
one
e and iro on,
n and bo oth
h
are
e rela
latiive
elly eassy tto
o obttaini wiith
h somme ass sid
duouus min
iniing
g. Th
The
e onlly prrob
blle
em witth a
com
mpas ss iss tha at it alwaays po oints to
o yourr orig
gin
nall world
d spaawn poin
aw nt. Thinkk of thhatt
poin
nt as the mag gneetiic noortth polee—itt’s
s no
ot a GPSS. Sleeeping
ing in a beed res setts yo
our
68 CHAPTER 3: Gathering Resources

spaawn pooin
nt bu
ut no
ot yo
ourr compa ass s, so
o this metthood fa
alls
soout
utt of da
ate
e as sooon as
s
yo
ou move e to ne
ew dwelllingss and
d upda ate
e you
ur spa awn pooin
nt.
t Yo
Youu cann als
so us
se a cheeatt
codde to
o res
set youur spa
pawn p po
oin
nt,, /sppawnp poiintt.

Q A com
mpasss is
s actu
ually morre us
sefful when
n cra
aftted
d into a map
map
p, se
ee “M
Mappin
ng, or
The
here
e and
d Ba
Back Ag
Again
i ” in
in Chap
ptte
er 11 on paagee 2 57 .

Q Donn’t
’t fo
forg
get that
h t yyo
ou can
n alw
lways
ys usee th
hee built-
il -in
in GPS avvaiilab
l ble
le thr
hrouugh thhe de
debug
g
scrreeen (mmenttio
one
ed undder the
e “In
ntrrod
duc
cin
ng th
he HUD UD”” sec
ction
tionn earrlie
er in
n this
s chap
pte
er)).

Food on the Run

If you are getting dangerously hungry, head to the nearest equivalent of a fast food outlet—
a passive mob—sword at the ready. Your best bet is to look for cows and pigs because when
killed they drop up to three pieces of raw meat, with each piece restoring 3 hunger units
and 1.8 in saturation. They’re an excellent target of opportunity. You can eat raw chicken
and rabbits, but there’s a 30% chance of developing food poisoning. Rotten meat harvested
from zombies is guaranteed to give you a taste of the stomach aches. But you can also
cure any type of food poisoning by drinking milk obtained with a bucket from a cow, and
you can eat any amount of poisoned meat, gaining the restorative benefits, and curing the
whole lot with one serving of milk. So keep that rotten flesh the zombies drop just in case
you need a quick top-up, and follow it with a bucket of milk. (You can also feed rotten flesh
to tamed dogs to keep up their health with no fear of them suffering any ill effects.)
Unless you are desperate, it is actually much better to take the time to cook all your meat
first. There’s less health risk, and you’ll end up restoring more hunger and saturation points.
It’s therefore quite handy to always carry a furnace in your inventory, along with fuel. Think
of it as a camping stove and cooler chest. When you’ve finished cooking, break the furnace
down with a pickaxe, and it floats back into your inventory. If your tastes run to cookouts
over an open fire, you can kill and cook pigs, chickens, rabbits, and cows in one blazing
swoop by setting the ground beneath them on fire with a flint and steel (right-click on the
ground, not the animal). Just take care that you don’t do this anywhere near that fantastic
wood cabin you just spent the last three weeks building. Fire can leap up to four blocks
away.
 Your Mission: Food, Resources, and Reconnaissance 69

NOTE
Fishing in the Sea of Plenty

Mobs s such h as chhic

cke
en,
n cows s, annd pigss don n’tt spawwn on th heirr o ow
wn,
n, unllike
e hosttilee mobs s,
so co onsidid
der them
h m a no onrrene
ewab ble
l reesouurc ce if yoou kill th
hem m ini th he wild
d. YoYou’’ree bettte
ter
off brreed din
ng thhemm in a fa
armm so o tha at th
heyy canan’tt wand derr offf and d cann bee rea adiily re
epllacced
ed.
d.
Fish,
ish inn con ntrrast,
ast aree unlim
mittedd in qu uan
ntiityy and d verry plenntifful.
ul You
You ca an evven fis sh in
waterfa alls
s. Byy the
e way, yyou
ur hu ungeger baar ne eveer dec creeasses wh hene trravvelling
g byy boa at,, mak-
in
ng itt th
he perrfeectt opp
portunnityy to geet in a spo ot of fisshing.
ing And d yyou
ou
u can ne eve
er ge et fo
oodd
poiiso
oniing g fro
om raw w fish. Susshii anyyonne? Yo ou ca an also p puull upp a numbe er off otherr ittem ms
in
ncluddinng sad ddless. Se
ee Cha aptterr 7 forr more e infforrmattion
ion.

TIP
Let Them Eat Cake

Wha att’s
s thee quickkest wayy to fill you ur huunge er baar?? Ea at caakee! Unnlike
nlike
e anooth her well- ll-kn
now
wn
game, Min ineccraft
ft’s
’s cakke is
i nott a lie.
li Eac
E ch fu full caake
ke provvide
ides uupp too 6 slilic
ces, eac ch worr th
h
1.55 hu ung ger po oin
ntss, or 9 inn tottall, and itit’s
s les
ss re esou urc
ce in nte
enssivve th
siv han
n crea atinng golde en
appleles. Howevverr, as in in the
he rea al worrld,
ld itt won’t ’t las
st.
t Thehe nuttriien
i nts
ts are
e lac cking
ki g, so o cakke
does snn’tt proovide
e any sa atu
uraation
n ben nefitt. Make su ure
e you u eat somome morre nu utrrittionnal foo
ods
succh as prrotteiin as s you
ur hun
h nge er bar
b r statartts to
t totop outt tot en nsu
ure e you als lso gett thathat
exttraa boos st. A balan nce
ed diett is immpo orttantt inn Mine ecrrafft to
oo!

Finally, if you simply cannot find mobs, your hunger bar has dropped to zero, and your
health has plummeted to half a point, consider at least planting a wheat field and waiting it
out in your shelter for the wheat to grow so you can harvest them and bake bread.
There’s one final option if you’re desperate: dying. If you are near your spawn point, place
all your items in a chest, and then find some quick way to die, such as drowning, falling,
or mob baiting. You respawn back in your shelter with full health, a full hunger bar, and
all your possessions waiting for you. Get dressed, fully equipped, and head out there to try
again.

Finding a Building Site

As you scout around, keep in mind that you are also looking for a new building site. This
doesn’t have to be fancy or even particularly large. A 6×5 space manages just fine, and even
6×4 can squeeze in the basics. You can also level ground and break down a few trees to
clear space. I did this in Figure 3.8. The site is located just up the hill from the first dugout,
overlooking the same lake and river system.
70 CHAPTER 3: Gathering Resources

FIGURE 3.8 A nice, flat, elevated building site after clearing some trees and fill-
ing some holes in the ground with dirt.

I usually prefer space that’s a little elevated because it provides a better view of the sur-
roundings, but it’s perfectly possible to create a protected space just about anywhere. You
may even decide to go a little hybrid, building a house that’s both tunneled into a hill and
extending outside.

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So, what can we build on this site? Let me show you a basic structure (see Figure 3.9). 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 71

FIGURE 3.9 The layout for a small cobblestone cabin using a total of 46 blocks,
roof not shown. The sharp-eyed will notice it can be reduced in width one space
further, but for the sake of four blocks, that would feel just a little too claustro-
phobic.

You can build the roof from almost any handy material, including dirt, cobblestone, and
wood. Avoid blocks that fall down, such as gravel, and sand. A two-block high wall keeps
out all mobs except for spiders, because they can climb walls. An overhang on the wall
keeps spiders out because they can’t climb upside-down, but it’s easier to just add a roof,
especially if there are trees nearby the spiders can climb up and use as an arachnid’s spring-
board to jump straight into your dwelling. (Yes, it’s happened to me. Sent shivers up my
spine.) Figure 3.10 shows the finished hut with a few torches on the outside to keep things
well lit.

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FIGURE 3.10 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 in any
case 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.

Building a wall even two blocks high can take a little bit of fancy footwork. Some basic
techniques help:
Q Place your walls one layer at time. Put down the first layer, and then jump on top to
place the second.
Q If you fall off, place a temporary block on the inside of your structure against the wall,
and use this to climb back up. You can remove it when you’re finished.
Q Use pillar jumping if you need to go higher. While looking directly down, press the
spacebar to jump and then right-click to place a block underneath you. You land on
 Using the Creative Mode Inventory 73

that block instead of the one below. Repeat as often as neecessary. Dig the blocks out
from directly underneath you to go back down.
Q Hold down the Shiftt key as you work around the top of taall walls so you don’t fall off.
You can even use this technique to place blocks on the sid
de of your current layer that are
normally beyond sight.

See Chapter 8 for more building techniques and ideas.

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Using the Creative Mode Inventory

Minecraft’s resources fall into several primary categories. Some of them are a natural early
focus as you improve your position from those gathered for first-night survival; others come
into more focus as you get further through the game, gear up for your exploration of The
Nether and The End dimensions and start to become more creative with all that Minecraft
has to offer. Here’s a quick summary of the different categories. You can view all possible
tools and resources by opening your inventory in Creative mode, as shown in Figure 3.11.
The categories that follow correspond to the tabs running across the upper and lower sec-
tions of the Creative mode inventory.
74 CHAPTER 3: Gathering Resources

1 2 3 4 5 6

7 8 9 10 11 12

FIGURE 3.11 Creative mode inventory provides access to the full set of
resources and tools.

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Q 1. 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. Build a skyscraper or reconstruct a monument. Minecraft provides a large num-
ber of primary blocks—such as cobblestone, gravel, wood, and dirt—that can be harvested
directly, but things definitely become more interesting once you start creating secondary
types of blocks from primary materials. You can store many items more efficiently (for
example, by converting nine gold ingots into a single gold block), and climb more
 Using the Creative Mode Inventory 75

efficiently by crafting stairs instead of jumping up and dow

wn blocks on well-travelled
routes. Building blocks are, without being too punny, the building blocks of creativity.
Q 2. Decoration Blocks—Decoration blocks are something of a catchall category.
Generally, they are things you can use to make your constructions more interesting.
Some of those are just visual, such as carpet, whereas oth
hers such as crafting tables,
chests, and the bed that keeps you safe at night provide vital functions.
Q 3. Redstone—Redstone is an almost magical
g resource. You
u can use it to build powered
p
circuits, quite complex ones, and then activate pistons to automatically harvest a farm
plot, set up traps, open and close doors, and a huge amount more. The limits are set
only by your imagination. Redstone is also used to craft powered rail tracks and a range
of other useful items such as a compass and clock. See Chapter 9, “Redstone, Rails,
and More,” for more information.
Q 4. Transportation—Transportation is a small category, but one that’s a lot of fun and
very useful. It includes powered and unpowered rails, minecarts, a saddle, a boat, and
anything else related to moving yourself and other items around. There are enough
options there to enable you to build everything from massive transportation systems to
incredible roller coasters.
Q 5. Miscellaneous—Miscellaneous contains a range of useful and obscure items. You’ll
find the buckets quite handy for setting up new water and lava sources, and you can use
the eggs to spawn most of the mobs, populating a farm and more.
Q 6. Search Items—This tool isn’t an item, per se, but instead allows you to quickly locate
particular items by using free-text search.
Q 7. Foodstuffs—Foodstuffs contains the full range of edibles, including the enchanted
form of the golden apple, the rarest edible in the game. Take a few of these with you
the next 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 8. Tools—Tools can be wielded as weapons, but not very effectively. They are, however,
great at digging, chopping, hoeing, and setting Nether Gates 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.
Q 9. Combat—Combat provides your weapons and armor, as well as the remaining
enchanted books that relate to combat items.
Q 10. Brewing—The Brewing tab contains all possible potions and a number of the rarer
ingredients required that don’t fit into other categories. Potions are incredibly handy.
Caught outside at night? The Potion of Night Vision triples the brightness to almost
daylight conditions. You can learn more about brewing in Chapter 10.
76 CHAPTER 3: Gathering Resources

Q 11. Materials—Materials is the final catchall categorr y, along with the miscellaneous and
decoration blocks. However, it differs because it is composed of secondary items that
are derived from another action. For example, killingg a chicken can drop feathers, and
you’ll need those for the fletching on arrows unless you gather them from skeletons.
Grow wheat to get bushels that can be used to tamee horses, donkeys, and mules.
Q 12. Survival Inventory—Here is where you can equip p your avatar with clothing and
other items to take into Survival mode if you so choose. (Remember that we can do this
from a Creative session by simply typing /gamemode survival.) Survival mode inventory
also contains any items you were carrying when you switched to Creative mode. (This
is empty if you started your world in Creative mode.) You can shift items between the
Creative mode inventory and your Survival inventory. Any items you drag down to the
hotbar are common across both inventories. Remove items from your Survival inventory
by dragging them down to the square on the lower-right that shows an X. X

The Bottom Line

Congratulations! You’ve now learned everything you need to know to monitor your health,
improve your tools for better longevity, avoid getting lost on your travels, and create your
first mob-proof outdoor shelter.
These are the keys to Minecraft. Just remember to head back to your chest often to store
the valuables you’ve gathered, or build other chests further afield.
The next chapter is all downhill—deep into your first mine.
 INDEX

Symbols & Numerics chickens, 147

crafting arrows, 110
/gamemode survival command, 107 fences, 146
/spawnpoint command, 116 cooking, 68
/summon command, 107 cows, 147
donkeys, 147, 152
2x1 ladder descent, mining and, 84-85 jumping with, 152-153
packing, 155
riding, 152
A taming, 152
accounts, Mojang accounts, 7-8 establishing farms, 146-148
achievements, 48 fences, 146
activator rails, 216 fish, 69
ads (pop-up), downloading resource packs, 293 fishing, 156
Advanced Strategy Guide to Minecraft , 136 food poisoning, 68
Adventure mode, 17 herding, 148
airlocks, crafting, 39 horses, 147
A key, 27 armor and, 154
Allow Cheats setting (Create New World jumping with, 152-153
screen), 13 leading, 149
Amplifified world type, 15 riding, 152
anchor blocks, 192 taming, 152
AND gates, 209-210 hostile mobs and safety, 149
animals, 145 jumping with, 152-153
breeding, 147-150 leading, 147-150
cats, 148 mooshrooms, 147
312 animals

mules, 147 durability bar, 47

jumping with, 152-153 enchantments, 234
packing, 155 The End survival checklist, 275
riding, 152 horses and, 154
taming, 152 The Nether survival checklist, 266
ocelots, 148 armor bar (HUD), 54
pack animals, 155 Armor slots (inventory), 29
pigs, 147, 155 arrows and bows
raw, eating, 68 crafting, 109-110
resources, animals as, 66 The End survival checklist, 275
riding, 152, 155 fighting, 111-112
sheep, 147, 150 The Nether survival checklist, 267
speeding up growth of, 148 skeletons, 98, 110
squid, 157 arrow slits, building, 183
taming, 147, 152 attacking
wolves, 147 Peaceful mode, resting via, 63
anvils swords, fighting with, 63
combining two items with, 237 automated farms, 132-133, 136
crafting, 235-236 crop selection, 134
enchantments harvesting, 134
combining enchantments, 237 piston harvesters, 136-138
enchanting items, 237 sticky piston harvesters, 139
placement of, 236 sugar cane, 142
renaming items, 237 water harvesters, 140-142
repairing items, 236 automatic doors, building, 200-203
Aqua Affifinity enchantment, 234 avoiding mobs, 64
architectural plans, fi
finding, 162 awkward potions, 240-241
armor, 108 axes, crafting, 34
crafting
color, 114
leather, 112 B
recipes, 113-114 Bane of Arthropods enchantment, 233
requirements, 112 barbeques, building, 171
critical hits, 108 barricades, building, 271
damage absorption, 113
 bobbers (fishing) 313

bases blazes, The Nether, 272

setting up, 91 blaze spawners, 271
underwater bases, mob attacks, 55 blocking attacks, swords, 109
basins, 251 blocking off areas (mining), 83
BBQ, building, 171 blocks
BeastsMC multiplayer server, 306 anchor blocks, 192
beds cobblestone, The Nether survival checklist,
crafting, 44-46 266
The End, 274-276 Command Block, 303
The Nether, 274 dimensions of, 16
taking with you, 46 fl
floating blocks, 162
villages and, 247 netherbrick, 270
wool, crafting, 45-46 nether quartz, 269
beds, building, 166 The Nether, building barricades, 271
bedside tables, building, 166 note blocks as output devices, 199
beef, raw, 124 obsidian
Beijing, China, 161 The End survival checklist, 275
biomes Nether Portals, building, 267
changing, 28 The Nether survival checklist, 267
choosing, 15 powered blocks, 192
Deep Ocean, Ocean Monuments, buttons, 192
256-257 levers, 192
islands, first-night survival, 28 two block rule, 193
Large Biomes option, 245 redstone blocks, 188
oceans, first-night
fi survival, 28 scale of, 161
resetting, 28 signs, placement of, 166
trees snow blocks, The Nether survival checklist,
first-night survival, 27 267
lumberjacking, 28 soft blocks, building underwater, 174,
178
Xbox 360 Edition, 17
sponge blocks, 178
blacksmiths, villages, 248
wood blocks, The Nether survival check-
Blast Protection enchantment, 234
list, 267
blaze rods
boats, crafting, 156
brewing potions, 238
bobbers (fi
fishing), 156
finding, 266
The Nether, 266, 272
314 bones

bones BBQ, 171

as resources, 66 beds, 166
farming, benefits
fi in, 129 bedside tables, 166
bonus chest, contents of, 49 bookshelves, 170
Bonus Chest setting (Create New World brewing stands, 240
screen), 13 chairs, 166
books clocks (wall), 169
crafting, 228 dining tables, 166
enchantment tables, 228 enchantment tables, 225
storing enchantments, 231 books, 228
bookshelves, building, 170 casting enchantments, 228-230
bottles, crafting, 240 obsidian, 225-228
bowls, crafting, 144 examples of, 159-161
bows and arrows fantasy trees, growing, 169
crafting, 109-110 fireplaces, 171
The End survival checklist, 275 floors (raised/lowered), 171
fighting, 111-112 fountains, 169
The Nether survival checklist, 267 frames (item), 169
branch mines, 89-90 griefing,
fi 162
bread, 69, 123 hedges, growing, 167
breaking your fall while mining, 86 indoor plants, growing, 167
breeding animals, 147-150 interior design
brewing BBQ, 171
bottles, crafting, 240 beds, 166
brewing stands, building, 240 bedside tables, 166
Creative mode inventory, 75 bookshelves, 170
potions, 237 chairs, 166
blaze rods, 238 clocks (wall), 169
Nether wart, 238-241 dining tables, 166
soul sand, 238-239 fireplaces, 171
testing potions, 239 floors (raised/lowered), 171
buckets, mining and, 78 frames (item), 169
building, 159 indoor plants, 167
arrow slits, 183 item frames, 169
automatic doors, 200-203 maps (wall), 169
barricades, The Nether, 271
 building 315

netting, 170 towers, 181

paintings, 169 walls, 182
signs, 166 signs, placement of, 166
wall clocks, 169 sliding doors, 203-205
wall maps, 169 tables
item frames, 169 bedside tables, 166
location, determining, 161, 175 dining tables, 166
maps (wall), 169 tennis courts, 170
multiplayer rules, 162 tool enchantments, 235
Nether Portals, 267 tracks
netting, 170 halfway stations, 218
perimeters, 179 mobs, protecting tracks from, 219
arrow slits, 183 powered rails, 217
ditches, 179-180 T-junctions, 218
lighting, 181 zig zags, 216
mobs, 181-182 trees (fantasy), growing, 169
towers, 181 underwater, 172, 177-178
walls, 182 Creative mode, 172
pits doors, 175
mobs, 181-182 enchantments, 179
pressure plates, 182 flooding, 178
plans, finding, 162 island spawn points, 174
planter boxes, 168 ladders, 175
ponds, 170 lighting, 174-176
pools, 170 location, 175
resource packs, 160 oxygen, 175
scale of, 161 required equipment, 173-174
security security, 179
arrow slits, 183 signs, 175
ditches, 179-180 soft blocks, 174, 178
lighting, 181 Survival mode, 173
mobs, 181-182 vandalism, 162
perimeters, 179-183 villages, building next to, 161
pits, 181-182 wall clocks, 169
pressure plates, 182
316 building

wall maps, 169 tracks, building

walls, 182 halfway stations, 218
water, building on/under, 161-162 mobs, protecting tracks from, 219
buildings powered rails, 217
building blocks, 74 T-junctions, 218
decoration blocks, 75 zig zags, 216
lighting, 70 trains, minecarts as, 214
overhangs, spiders and, 71 underground rails, 215
redstone, 75 cats (ocelots), 148
sites, finding,
fi 69-70 caverns, 251
building sites caves
housing codes, 71 crafting shelter from, 36
walls, building, 72 doors, importance of, 95
butchers, villages, 248 lighting, 70
buttons, 188 mining, 77
automatic doors, 200 sting caves, 77
powered blocks, 192 cave spiders, fighting, 98-99
buttons. See also pressure plates, 188 chairs, building, 166
buying Minecraft, 8-9 changing
biomes, 28
character skins, 286-289
C Minecraftskins website, 289
cake, 69, 123 Novaskin website, 289
carrots, 121 Skincraft website, 288
carts, 211-212 superheroes, 299
destroying/reusing, 214 character skins, 285-286
hopper minecarts, 213 changing, 286-289
powered minecarts, 213-214 skin editor websites
rails, 185 Minecraftskins, 289
activated rails, 216 Novaskin, 289
detector rails, 190, 216 Skincraft, 288
normal rails, 215 superhero skins, 299
powered rails, 215-217 charcoal
storage minecarts, 213 crafting, 39
TNT minecarts, 213, 216 furnaces, fueling, 42
 combat 317

chat window (HUD), 56 cliffs

cheating in Minecraft, 57 crafting shelter from, 36
cheats, 14 The Nether, 269
Allow Cheats setting (Create New World clocks, crafting, 260
screen), 13 clocks (wall), building, 169
seeding, 20 closing doors, 38
spawning, 44 clothing, dyeing wool, 150
turning on, 74 coal
chests, 60 charcoal, crafting, 39
Bonus Chests setting (Create New World furnaces, fueling, 42
screen), 13
cobblestone, 66
crafting, 61-62
crafting furnaces, 40-41
Ender chests, 62, 264, 267
huts, building, 71
minecarts with chests (storage minecarts),
The Nether survival checklist, 266
213
powered blocks, 192
mining and, 91
cobwebs, netting, 170
The Nether survival checklist, 267
cocoa beans, 120-121
opening, 61
Cold biome, 15
sizes of, 60
color, crafting armor, 114
trapped chests, 189
combat
chicken jockeys, 99
armor, 108
chickens, 147
crafting, 112-114
arrows, crafting, 110
critical hits, 108
fences, 146
damage absorption, 113
children in villages, 247-249
arrows and bows, 112
China, city of Beijing, 161
crafting, 109-110
chopping trees. See lumberjacking, 28
target practice, 111
chunks (mining), 92
bows and arrows, 112
circuits
crafting, 109-110
AND gates, 209-210
target practice, 111
NOR gates, 209
combat category (Creative mode inven-
NOT gates (inverters), 207
tory), 75
OR gates, 208
creepers, 99-100, 117
repeater loops, 210-211
critical hits, 108
Elder Guardians, 103
318 combat

enchantments, 233 confi

figuring new games, 13
Ender Dragon, 278-281 construction, 159
Endermen, 101-102 arrow slits, 183
Guardians, 103 automatic doors, 200-203
hostile mobs, 94 barricades, The Nether, 271
iron golems, 105 BBQ, 171
Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog, 103 beds, 166
Peaceful mode, resting via, 63 bedside tables, 166
skeletons, 97-99 bookshelves, 170
slimes, 100-101 brewing stands, 240
snow golems, 104 chairs, 166
spiders, 96-97 clocks (wall), 169
cave spiders, 98-99 decoration blocks, 75
spider jockeys, 99 dining tables, 166
sprinting and, 109 enchantment tables, 225
swords books, 228
blocking attacks, 109 casting enchantments, 228-230
crafting, 108 obsidian, 225-228
damage, 109 examples of, 159-161
fighting with, 63 fantasy trees, growing, 169
weapons, 108 fireplaces, 171
arrows and bows, 109-112 floors (raised/lowered), 171
bows and arrows, 109-112 fountains, 169
critical hits, 108 frames (item), 169
swords, 108-109 griefing,
fi 162
zombies, 94-95, 102 hedges growing, 167
combining items with an anvil, 237 huts, 70-72
Command Block, 303 indoor plants, growing, 167
commands interior design
cheats, 14 BBQ, 171
fill, 162 beds, 166
/gamemode survival, 107 bedside tables, 166
/spawnpoint, 116 bookshelves, 170
/summon, 107 chairs, 166
comparators, 196 clocks (wall), 169
compasses, crafting, 67, 258 dining tables, 166
 construction 319

fireplaces, 171 security

floors (raised/lowered), 171 arrow slits, 183
frames (item), 169 ditches, 179-180
indoor plants, 167 lighting, 181
item frames, 169 mobs, 181-182
maps (wall), 169 perimeters, 179-183
netting, 170 pits, 181-182
paintings, 169 pressure plates, 182
signs, 166 towers, 181
wall clocks, 169 walls, 182
wall maps, 169 signs, placement of, 166
item frames, 169 sites, finding,
fi 69-70
lighting, 70 sliding doors, 203-205
location, determining, 161, 175 tennis courts, 170
maps (wall), 169 tracks
multiplayer rules, 162 halfway stations, 218
Nether Portals, 267 mobs, protecting tracks from, 219
netting, 170 powered rails, 217
perimeters, 179 T-junctions, 218
arrow slits, 183 zig zags, 216
ditches, 179-180 trees (fantasy), growing, 169
lighting, 181 underwater, 172, 177-178
mobs, 181-182 Creative mode, 172
towers, 181 doors, 175
walls, 182 enchantments, 179
pits flooding, 178
mobs, 181-182 island spawn points, 174
pressure plates, 182 ladders, 175
plans, finding, 162 lighting, 174-176
planter boxes, 168 location, 175
ponds, 170 oxygen, 175
pools, 170 required equipment, 173-174
resource packs, 160 security, 179
scale of, 161 signs, 175
soft blocks, 174, 178
Survival mode, 173
320 construction

vandalism, 162 bowls, 144

villages, building next to, 161 bows and arrows, 109-110
wall clocks, 169 bread, 69
wall maps, 169 charcoal, 39
walls, 182 chests, 61
water, building on/under, 161-162 Ender chests, 62
contents of bonus chest, 49 clocks, 260
controls compasses, 67, 258
A key, 27 crafting table, 31-32, 37
D key, 27 doors, 38
directional keys, 27 emergency shelters, 40
E key, opening inventory, 29 furnaces, 40-41
Esc key, 27 heat sources, 39-40
FN key (Mac OSX), 23 light sources, 39-43
left-handed options, 22 Minecraft: Xbox 360 edition, 33
list of controls, 21-23 multicrafting, 38
Q key, discarding inventory items, 31 pillar jumping, 40
S key, 27 planks, 31
Shift key, 85, 91 shelter, 36-37
W key, 27, 63 doors, 38
cookies, 123 heat sources, 39-40
cooking, 68 light sources, 39-43
cows, 147 shelters, emergency shelters, 40
crafting shortcuts, 38
airlocks, 39 signs, 83
anvils, 235-236 swords, 108
armor tools
color, 114 axes, 34
leather, 112 durability, 59
recipes, 113-114 handles, 32-33
requirements, 112 pickaxes, 34
arrows and bows, 109-110 shovels, 35
beds, 44-46 swords, 35
boats, 156 wearing down, 59
books, 228 torches, 41-43
bottles, 240
 crop farming 321

weapons swimming and, 100

bows and arrows, 109-110 critical hits (combat), 108
swords, 108 crop farming, 119
wool, 45-46 automated farms, 132-133, 136
Crafting grid (inventory), 29 crop selection, 134
crafting table harvesting, 134
crafting, 31-32, 37 piston harvesters, 136-138
fi
first-night survival, 31-32, 37 sticky piston harvesters, 139
Create New World screen sugar cane, 142
Allow Cheats setting, 13 water harvesters, 140-142
Bonus Chest setting, 13 bones and, 129
creating worlds, 13-14 carrots, 121
Generate Structures setting, 13 choosing crops, 119-122
naming worlds, 13 cocoa beans, 120-121
selecting game mode, 13 establishing farms, 125
World Type setting, 13 block to crop ratios, 126
Creative mode bone meal, 129
inventory, 73 difficult terrain, 125
brewing, 75 fences, 128, 131
building blocks, 74 growth cycles, 129
combat, 75 harvesting, 131
decoration blocks, 75 lighting, 129
foodstuffs, 75 location, 125-126
materials, 76 planting, 127
miscellaneous, 75 raised beds, 130-132
moving items to Survival mode inventory, 76 saving crops, 130
redstone, 75 water, 126-127, 131
tools, 75 fences, 120, 128, 131
transportation, 75 growth cycles, 129
underwater, building, 172 harvesting, 129-131, 134
creepers, 63 lighting and, 120, 129
defending against, 117 melons, 122
fighting, 99-100
fi Minecraft updates and, 126
gunpowder and, 100 piston farms, 132-133, 136
crop selection, 134
harvesting, 134
322 crop farming

piston harvesters, 136-138 More Explosives website, 298

sticky piston harvesters, 139 More Mobs website, 300
sugar cane, 142 multiple mods, using, 293
water harvesters, 140-142 permanent effects of, 294
potatos, 122 REI’s MiniMap website, 299
pumpkins, 122 removing, 296
raised beds, 120, 130-132 restoring games, 294
saving crops, 130 superheroes website, 299
seeds, 120, 127 Too Many Items website, 297
self-sufi
ficiency, 120 zip files, 296
sneaking and, 130 resource packs, 285, 290
soil, 120 Dokucraft, 291-292
sugar cane, 120-122 downloading and pop-ups, 293
automated farms, 142 Faithful 32, 292
piston farms, 142 installing, 290-292
tending farms, 120 Ovo’s Rustif, 292
underground farms, 120, 143 pixels per texture, 292
wheat, 119, 122 skins, 285-286
growth cycles, 129 changing, 286-289
harvesting, 129-131 Minecraftskins website, 289
crosshairs (bows and arrows), targeting Novaskin website, 289
with, 111 Skincraft website, 288
current, vertical current, 205-206 Steve, 286
Customized mode, 163 superheroes, 299
Good Luck preset, 164
presets, 163
settings, 165 D
customizing Minecraft, 285
damage
launchers, 9
armor, damage absorption, 113
mods, 285
swords, 109
defining, 293
dandelions, dyeing and, 151
finding, 301
Dante, 274
Forge mods, 294-295
debug screen (HUD), 56-57
installing, 295-296
decoration blocks, 75
jar files, 296
Legendary Beasts website, 300
 durability 323

Deep Ocean biome, Ocean Monuments, ditches, building, 179-180

256 D key, 27
defense dogs, 106, 148
barricades, building, 271 Dokucraft resource pack, 291-292
caves, doors, 95 donkeys, 147
creeper attacks, 117 HUD changes while riding, 56
doors, importance of, 95 jumping with, 152-153
Ender Dragon, defeating, 278-281 packing, 155
spiders, walls, 96 riding, 152
defensive enchantments, 234 taming, 152
defensive mobs doors
iron golems, fighting,
fi 105 airlocks, crafting, 39
snow golems, fighting,
fi 104 as output devices, 198
demo (Minecraft), time span, 5 automatic doors, building, 200-203
desert temples, 251-252 caves and tunnels, 95
destroying/reusing minecarts, 214 crafting, 38
detection systems iron doors, 39, 267
detector rails, 190, 216 opening/closing, 38
tripwires, 189 sliding doors, building, 203-205
detector rails, 189-190, 216 swinging doors, 200
diamond (material type), 58 trapdoors as output devices, 198
diffi
ficulty levels, Peaceful mode, 63 underwater, building, 175
digging permanent watering holes, 128 downloading
dimensions Minecraft, 8-10
of blocks, 16 resource packs, pop-ups and, 293
The End, 26 Dry/Warm biome, 16
The Nether, 26 dungeons, 254
Overworld, 26 durability
dining tables, building, 166 defi
fining, 57-58
directional keys, 27 diamond, 58
discarding inventory items, 31 gold, 58
dispensers as output devices, 199 HUD, viewing stats in, 56
displaying iron, 58
achievements, 48 stone, 58
numeric durability of items, 47
ditches, tunnels and, 180
324 durability

tools enchantment tables, 225

crafting, 59 books, 228
improving, 58 casting enchantments, 228-230
wearing down, 59 obsidian, 225-228
wood, 58 methods of gaining, 224
durability bar, 47 repairing enchanted items, 230
dyeing respiration, building underwater, 179
dandelions and, 151 storing with books, 231
Lapis Lazuli ore and, 151 tools, 235
squid ink and, 157 underwater, building, 179
wool, 150 water affinity,
fi building underwater, 179
weapons, 233
Ender chests, 62, 264, 267
E Ender crystals, Ender Dragon and, 279
earning Ender Dragon, 265, 277
achievements, 48 defeating, 278-281
XP, 232 egg, collecting, 282
Easy mode, hunger, 65 Ender pearls, 102, 266
Easy option (Survival mode), 19 Endermen, 278-279, 282
Efficiency
fi enchantment, 235 Ender pearls, 102
E key, opening inventory, 29 Eyes of Ender, 102
Elder Guardians, 103 fighting, 101-102
emeralds, farming, 250 The End, 26, 263
emergency shelters Dante’s influence
fl on, 274
crafting, 40 End Poem, 282
pillar jumping, 40 End Portals, 278
enabling cheats, 57 Ender chests, 264
enchantments, 223 Ender crystals, 279
anvils, 235-236 Ender Dragon, 265, 277
combining enchantments, 237 defeating, 278-281
enchanting items, 237 egg, collecting, 282
armor, 234 Ender pearls, 102, 266
benefi
fits of, 223 Endermen, 278-279, 282
books, 228, 231 Ender pearls, 102
casting, 228-230 Eyes of Ender, 102
fighting, 101-102
 Eyes of Ender 325

Eyes of Ender, 102, 265-266, 275-278 snow golems, fighting, 104

navigating, 265 spiders, 62
silverfi
fish spawners, 276 cave spiders, 98-99
sleeping in, 274-276 defending against, 96
strongholds, finding, 276-277 eyes as food, 96
survival checklist, 275-276 fighting, 96-97
trading versus fighting, 266 overhangs and, 71
enemies spider jockeys, 99
avoiding, 64 string, 96
chicken jockeys, 99 uses for, 96
creepers, 63 walls as defense, 96
defending against, 117 zombies, 62
fighting, 99-100 crafting arrows, 110
gunpowder and, 100 fighting, 94-95
swimming and, 100 reinforcements, 95
Elder Guardians, 103 rotten meat, 95
Endermen zombie pigmen, 102
Ender pearls, 102 entering cheats, 14
Eyes of Ender, 102 equipment
fighting, 101-102 The End survival checklist, 275
fi
fighting, swords, 63 The Nether survival checklist, 266-267
Guardians, 103 Esc key, 27
iron golems evenly distributing items in inventory, 31
fighting, 105 experience bar (HUD), 54
Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog, 103 experience points (XP)
Legendary Beasts mod website, 300 earning, 232
More Mobs mod website, 300 enchantments, 223, 229
Peaceful mode, 63 managing, 232
pursuit mode, 64 exploding minecarts. See TNT minecarts
skeletons, 62 explosives, More Explosives mod website,
arrows and, 98, 110 298
fighting, 97-98 Eyes of Ender, 102, 265-266, 275-278
spider jockeys, 99
slimes, 63, 100-101
326 Faithful 32x32 resource pack

F sugar cane, 142

water harvesters, 140-142
Faithful 32x32 resource pack, 160, 292 bones and, 129
falling, mining and, 82, 86 carrots, 121
fantasy trees, growing, 169 choosing crops, 119-122
Far Lands, 16 cocoa beans, 120-121
farmers, villages, 248 establishing farms, 125
farming, 119 animals, 145-148
animals, 145 block to crop ratios, 126
breeding, 147-150 bone meal, 129
cats, 148 difficult terrain, 125
chickens, 146-147 fences, 128, 131
cows, 147 growth cycles, 129
donkeys, 147, 152-155 harvesting, 131
establishing farms, 146-148 lighting, 129
fences, 146 location, 125-126
fishing, 156 planting, 127
herding, 148 raised beds, 130-132
horses, 147-149, 152-154 saving crops, 130
hostile mobs and safety, 149 water, 126-127, 131
jumping with, 152-153 fences, 120, 128, 131
leading, 147-150 greenhouses, 132
mooshrooms, 147 growth cycles, 129
mules, 147, 152-155 harvesting, 129-131, 134
ocelots, 148 lighting and, 120, 129
pack animals, 155 melons, 122
pigs, 147, 155 Minecraft updates and, 126
riding, 152, 155 piston farms, 132-133, 136
sheep, 147, 150 crop selection, 134
taming, 147, 152 harvesting, 134
wolves, 147 piston harvesters, 136-138
automated farms, 132-133, 136 sticky piston harvesters, 139
crop selection, 134 sugar cane, 142
harvesting, 134 water harvesters, 140-142
piston harvesters, 136-138 potatoes, 122
sticky piston harvesters, 139
 Fire Protection enchantment 327

pumpkins, 122 Guardians, 103

raised beds, 120, 130-132 hostile mobs, 94
saving crops, 130 iron golems, 105
seeds, 120, 127 Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog, 103
self-suffi
ficiency, 120 Peaceful mode, resting via, 63
sneaking and, 130 skeletons, 97-99
soil, 120 slimes, 100-101
sugar cane, 120-122, 142 snow golems, 104
tending farms, 120 spiders, 96-97
underground farms, 120, 143 cave spiders, 98-99
wheat, 119, 122 spider jockeys, 99
growth farming, 129 sprinting and, 109
harvesting, 129-131 swords
Feather Falling enchantment, 234 blocking attacks, 109
fences crafting, 108
animals, 146 damage, 109
farming, 120, 128, 131 swords, using, 63
gates as output devices, 198 weapons, 108
fermented spider eye, potions, 243 bows and arrows, 109-112
fi
fighting critical hits, 108
armor, 108 swords, 108-109
crafting, 112-114 zombies, 94-95
critical hits, 108 zombie pigmen, 102
damage absorption, 113 fill command, 162
blocking attacks, swords, 109 finding
bows and arrows, 112 blaze rods, 266
crafting, 109-110 building sites, 69-70
target practice, 111 The End strongholds, 276-277
combat category (Creative mode inven- mods, 301
tory), 75 Nether fortresses, 269-270
combat enchantments, 233 villages, 248
creepers, 99-100 Fire Aspect enchantment, 233
critical hits, 108 fireplaces, building, 171
defensive enchantments, 234 Fire Protection enchantment, 234
Elder Guardians , 103
Endermen, 101-102
328 Fire Resistance potion

Fire Resistance potion, 241 food

first night, surviving animals, 66
crafting bowls, crafting, 144
axes, 34 bread, crafting, 69
beds, 44-46 brewing, Creative mode inventory, 75
crafting table, 31-32, 37 cake, 69
furnaces, 40-41 cooking, 68
heat sources, 39-40 The End survival checklist, 275
light sources, 39-43 fishing, 69
fi
pickaxes, 34 foodstuffs category (Creative mode inven-
shelter, 36-40 tory), 75
shovels, 35 harvesting, 66, 69
swords, 35 health and, 65
tool handles, 32-33 hunger
torches, 41-43 Easy mode, 65
first-day tasks, 25-26 hunger bar (HUD), 55, 64
inventory, checking, 29-31 saturation, 64
island biomes, 28 Survival mode, 65
ocean biomes, 28 hunger and, 65
perimeter structures as protection, 39 meat, rotten meat and zombies, 95
trees, 27-28 mining and, 78
wood, gathering, 27-28 mushroom stew, creating, 144
fish, raw, 124 The Nether survival checklist, 267
fishing, 69, 156 poisoning, 68
boats, crafting, 156 raw, eating, 68
rain and, 156 spider eyes, 96
Flame enchantment, 233 vegetables, 66
flint and steel, 111 Forge mods, 294-295
Nether Portals, 268 fortresses, Nether fortresses, 257
The Nether survival checklist, 267 finding, 269-270
fi
floating blocks, 162
fl survival tips, 271-272
fl
flooding, building underwater, 178 Fortune enchantment, 235
floors (raised/lowered), building, 171
fl fountains, building, 169
fl
flying, leading animals while flying, 150 frames (item), building, 169
FN key, 23 free Minecraft demo version, time span, 5
fueling furnaces, 42
 Hard option (Survival mode) 329

furnaces Generate Structures selection (More World

crafting, 40-41 Options), structures and, 245
fueling, 42 Generate Structures setting (Create New
World screen), 13
minecarts with furnaces (powered
minecarts), 213-214 ghasts, 269-272
gifting Minecraft, 9
glowstone, 242
G The Nether, 269
underwater, building, 174-176
game modes
gold (material type), 58
Adventure mode, 17
golems
Hardcore mode, 17
iron golems, fighting, 105
Survival mode, 17
snow golems, fighting, 104
Easy option, 19
villages and, 246
Hard option, 19
Good Luck preset (Customized mode), 164
Normal option, 19
gravel
Peaceful option, 18
arrows, crafting, 110
Game Mode selector (Create New World
screen), 13 mining, quick mining tips, 111
Game of Thrones, 160 The Nether survival checklist, 266
games greenhouses, 132
new games griefing,
fi 162
biomes, choosing, 15 growing
configuring setup, 13 hedges, 167
creating worlds, 13-14 indoor plants, 167
naming worlds, 13 trees (fantasy), 169
The Nether options, configuring, 269 growth cycles (farming), 129
selecting game mode, 13 Guardians, 103
world generation style, choosing, 15 gunpowder
pausing, 27 creepers and, 100
gates potions, 242
AND gates, 209-210
as output devices, 198
H
NOR gates, 209
NOT gates (inverters), 207 halfway stations, building tracks, 218
OR gates, 208 handles (tool), crafting, 32-33
gems, Lapis Lazuli, 80 Hardcore mode, 17
Hard option (Survival mode), 19
330 Harming potions

Harming potions, 243 farming and animals, 149

harvesting, 66, 129-131 fighting, 94
piston farms, 134 skeletons
wheat, 69 arrows and, 98, 110
Healing potion, 241 fighting, 97-98
health, food and, 65 spider jockeys, 99
health bar (HUD), 54 slimes, fighting,
fi 100-101
heat sources, crafting, 39-40 spiders
hedges, growing, 167 cave spiders, 98-99
herding animals, 148 defending against, 96
Herobrine, 286 eyes as food, 96
hiding HUD, 56 fighting, 96-97
hills, crafting shelter from, 36 spider jockeys, 99
The Hive multiplayer server, 306 string, 96
hoppers, 219-220 uses for, 96
as output devices, 199 walls as defense, 96
hopper minecarts, 213 zombies
horses, 147 crafting arrows, 110
armor and, 154 fighting, 94-95
HUD changes while riding, 56 reinforcements, 95
jumping with, 152-153 rotten meat, 95
leading, 149 zombie pigmen, 102
leather, obtaining, 112 hosting
riding, 152 LAN parties, 302
taming, 152 multiplayer servers, 302, 307-310
hostile mobs houses
creepers building blocks, 74
defending against, 117 decoration blocks, 75
fighting, 99-100 housing codes, 71
gunpowder and, 100 huts, building, 70-72
swimming and, 100 overhangs, spiders and, 71
Endermen redstone, 75
Ender pearls, 102 HUD (Head Up Display), 53
Eyes of Ender, 102 armor bar, 54
fighting, 101-102 chat window, 56
 inventory 331

debug screen, 56-57

I
durability stats, viewing, 56
experience bar, 54 Indiana Jones, 253
health bar, 54 indoor plants, growing, 167
hiding, 56 Infinity
fi enchantment, 233
hunger bar, 55, 64 installing
inventory quick access, 55 mods, 295-296
oxygen bar, 54 resource packs, 290-292
riding animals, HUD changes while riding, interior design
56 BBQ, 171
hunger beds, 166
Easy mode, 65 bedside tables, 166
food bookshelves, 170
bread, 69 chairs, 166
cake, 69 clocks (wall), 169
cooking, 68 dining tables, 166
food poisoning, 68 fireplaces, 171
health and, 65 floors (raised/lowered), 171
hunger bar (HUD), 55, 64 frames (item), 169
Normal diffi
ficulty and, 65 indoor plants, 167
raw meat, eating, 68 item frames, 169
saturation, 64 maps (wall), 169
sprinting and, 64-65 netting, 170
Survival mode, 65 paintings, 169
huts, 253 signs, placement of, 166
building, 70-72 wall clocks, 169
overhangs, spiders and, 71 wall maps, 169
hydration inventory, 29
establishing farms, 126-127, 131 Armor slots, 29
permanent watering holes, digging, 128 Crafting grid, 29
water harvesters, 140-142 Creative mode, 73
brewing, 75
building blocks, 74
combat, 75
332 inventory

decoration blocks, 75 iron trapdoors, 198

foodstuffs, 75 islands
materials, 76 first-night survival, 28
miscellaneous, 75 spawn points, building underwater, 174
moving items to Survival mode inventory, 76 item frames, building, 169
redstone, 75
tools, 75
transportation, 75 J-K
discarding items from, 31 jack-o-lanterns, The Nether survival check-
evenly distributing items, 31 list, 267-269
fi
first-night survival, 29-31 jar fi
files, modes as, 296
inventory quick access (HUD), 55 jockeys (spider), fi
fighting, 99
Inventory slots, 30 joining
main storage, moving items between quick LAN parties, 302-303
access grid and multiplayer servers, 302-305
main storage area, 31
jumping
opening, 29, 32
donkeys and, 152-153
picking up items, 31
horses and, 152-153
placing items in inventory, 31
mules and, 152-153
quick access grid, 30-31
jungle temples, 253
removing items from, 31
stacking items, 30
Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog, fi
fighting, 103
storage area, 30
Knockback enchantments, 233
Survival mode, moving items to Creative
mode, 76
inverters (NOT gates), 207
L
Invisibility potions, 241-243
iron (material type), 58 ladders
iron anvils, crafting, 235-236 2x1 ladder descent, mining and, 84-85
iron bars, The Nether survival checklist, 267 The End survival checklist, 275
iron doors, 39, 267 pausing on, 85
iron golems underwater, building, 175
fighting, 105 lamps
villages and, 246 bedside tables and, 166
iron ingots, The Nether survival checklist, redstone lamps, 197
267 LAN parties (multiplayer games), 302-303
 minecarts 333

lanterns logins, 12
The Nether survival checklist, 267 loops, repeater loops, 210-211
Nether, The, 269 Looting enchantment, 233
perimeters, 181 lowered fl
floors, building, 171
underwater, building, 176
Lapis Lazuli, dyeing and, 151
Large Biomes option (structures), 245 M
launching Minecraft, 9-10 Mac OSX
custom launchers, 9 FN key, 23
logins, 12 Minecraft, downloading, 10
passwords, 11 magma cubes, The Nether, 272
usernames, 11 main storage (inventory), moving items
lava, fueling furnaces, 42 between quick access grid and main stor-
lava lakes age area, 31
mining and, 82, 89 managing XP, 232
Nether, The, 269 mapping
lava pools, mining obsidian, 225-228 compasses, crafting, 258
leading animals, 147-150 numbering maps, 258
leather, obtaining, 112 REI’s MiniMap mod website, 299
left-handed control options, 22 villages, 248
Legendary Beasts mod website, 300 zooming in/out maps, 259
levers, 188, 192 maps (wall), building, 169
librarians, villages, 248 materials category (Creative mode inven-
lighting tory), 76
bedside tables and, 166 material strength. See durability
caves and tunnels, 70 meat, rotten meat, zombies and, 95
farming and, 120, 129 Medium/Lush biome, 16
light sources, crafting, 39-43 melons, 122
mines, 83 Middle Earth, 160
The Nether survival checklist, 267 minecarts, 211-212
The Nether, 269-271 destroying/reusing, 214
perimeters, 181 hopper minecarts, 213
torches, 78 mechanics in version 1.8, 214
underwater, building, 174-176 powered minecarts, 213-214
Linux, downloading Minecraft, 10
334 minecarts

rails, 185 naming worlds, 13

activated rails, 216 selecting game mode, 13
detector rails, 190, 216 PC edition, 6
normal rails, 215 Pocket Edition, hiding HUD, 56
powered rails, 198, 215-217 purchasing, 8-9
pressure plates, 189 updates, farming and, 126
storage minecarts, 213 Xbox 360 Edition, 17, 56
TNT minecarts, 213, 216 Minecraft: pocket edition, crafting, 33
tracks, building Minecraft: Xbox 360 edition
halfway stations, 218 biomes, 17
mobs, protecting tracks from, 219 crafting, 33
powered rails, 217 mining
T-junctions, 218 2x1 ladder descent, 84-85
zig zags, 216 abandoned mineshafts, 255
trains, minecarts as, 214 bases, setting up, 91
underground rails, 215 blocking off areas, 83
Minecraft branch mines, 89-90
controls breaking your fall, 86
Esc key, 27 buckets, 78
FN key (Mac OSX), 23 cave spiders, fighting, 98-99
left-handed options, 22 caves, 77
list of controls, 21-23 chests, placing in mines, 91
demo version, time span, 5 chunks, 92
downloading, 8-10 cobblestone, 66
gifting, 9 digging straight down, 82
launching, 9-10 digging straight up, 82
custom launchers, 9 falling and, 82, 86
logins, 12 farming underground, 120, 143
passwords, 11 flint, quick mining tips, 111
usernames, 11 food, 78
logins, 12 gravel, quick mining tips, 111
new games ladders, 84-85
choosing biomes, 15 Lapis Lazuli, 80
choosing world generation style, 15 lava lakes, 82, 89
creating worlds, 13-14 lighting, 83
 mobs 335

mining dos and don’ts, 82-83 fi

fighting, 63, 94
mobs and, 91 hostile mobs, farming and animals, 149
netherrack, 269 inventory checks and character vulner-
obsidian, 79, 225-228 ability, 32
ore layers, 79-82 iron golems, fighting, 105
pickaxes, 78-79 Legendary Beasts mod website, 300
quick access bar, keeping blocks in, 82 mining, 91
safety and, 91 sleep, 91
sleep, 91 More Mobs mod website, 300
sneaking around hazards, 91 The Nether, 268-272
staging points, 91 passive mobs
staircases, 86-88 animals as, 66-68
strategies for starting, 77 squid, 157
tools, 78-79 passive mobs. See animals
torches, 78, 83 Peaceful mode, 63
unlit areas, 83 pursuit mode, 64
way out, knowing, 83 security
wood blocks and, 78 ditches, 180
miscellaneous category (Creative mode pits, 181-182
inventory), 75 tunnels, 180
mobs water, 180
avoiding, 64 skeletons, 62
character vulnerability and inventory arrows and, 98, 110
checks, 32 fighting, 97-98
creepers, 63 spider jockeys, 99
defending against, 117 slimes, 63, 100-101
fighting, 99-100 snow golems, fighting, 104
gunpowder and, 100 spawners, disabling, 251
swimming and, 100 spawning, 106
defining,
fi 19 spiders, 62
ditches, crossing, 179-180 cave spiders, 98-99
employing, 181-182 defending against, 96
Endermen eyes as food, 96
Ender pearls, 102 fighting, 96-97
Eyes of Ender, 102 spider jockeys, 99
fighting, 101-102
336 mobs

string, 96 registering, 7-8

uses for, 96 passwords, 8
walls as defense, 96 security questions, 8
tracks, protecting from attack, 219 security, 8
tunnels, 180 monsters
types of, 19 avoiding, 64
underwater bases, 55 creepers, 63
water, 180 fighting, swords, 63
Wither Boss, 273 Legendary Beasts mod website, 300
zombies, 62 More Mobs mod website, 300
arrows, crafting, 110 Peaceful mode, 63
fighting, 94-95 pursuit mode, 64
reinforcements, 95 skeletons, 62
rotten meat, 95 slimes, 63
zombie pigmen, 102 spiders, 62
mods, 285 overhangs and, 71
defi
fining, 293 zombies, 62
finding, 301 mooshrooms, 147
Forge mods, 294-295 More Explosives mod website, 298
installing, 295-296 More Mobs mod website, 300
jar fi
files, 296 moving inventory items between main stor-
Legendary Beasts website, 300 age and quick access grid, 31
More Explosives website, 298 mules, 147
More Mobs website, 300 jumping with, 152-153
multiple mods, using, 293 packing, 155
permanent effects of, 294 riding, 152
REI’s MiniMap website, 299 taming, 152
removing, 296 multicrafting, 38
restoring games, 294 MultiMC, 9
superheroes website, 299 multiplayer games
Too Many Items website, 297 Command Block, 303
zip fi
files, 296 LAN parties, 302-303
Mojang accounts multiplayer servers
passwords, 8 BeastsMC, 306
prerelease snapshots, 20-21 Hive, The, 306
hosting, 302, 307-310
 netting 337

joining, 302-305 blazes, 272

Phanatic, 306 blaze spawners, 271
Shotbow, 306 cliffs, 269
Supercraft Brothers, 306 Dante’s influence
fl on, 274
singleplayer games versus, 12-13 Ender chests, 264
multiplayer mode, superheroes mod web- Ender pearls, 266
site, 299 fortresses
multiplayer servers, whitelisted (trusted) finding, 269-270
players, 162
survival tips, 271-272
multiplayer worlds, trapped chests, 189
game options, configuring,
fi 269
mushrooms, The Nether, 269
ghasts, 269-272
mushroom stew, creating, 144
glowstone, 269
music, note blocks, 199
jack-o-lanterns, 269
mutton, raw, 124
lanterns, 269
lava lakes, 269
N lighting, 269-271
magma cubes, 272
navigating mobs, 268-272
compasses, crafting, 67 mushrooms, 269
directional keys, 27 navigating, 265
The End, 265 netherbrick, 270
Minecraft controls Nether Portal, 267-268
FN key (Mac OSX), 23 nether quartz, 269
left-handed options, 22 nether wart, 271
list of controls, 21-23 Overworld size comparison to, 274
The Nether, 265 sleeping in, 274
negative effect potions, 243 Sneak key (Left Shift), 269
negative potions, 242 soul sand, 269
negative structures, 251 stairs, 269
netherbrick, 270 survival checklist, 266-267
Nether fortresses, 257 torches, 269-271
nether quartz, 269 tunnels, 269
netherrack, 171, 269 water, 266
The Nether, 26, 263 wither skeletons, 273
barricades, building, 271 Nether wart, brewing potions, 238-241
blaze rods, 266, 272 netting, 170
338 Neutral biome

Neutral biome, 16
O
new games
biomes, choosing, 15 obsidian
configuring
fi setup, 13 enchantment tables, 225-228
creating worlds, 13-14 The End survival checklist, 275
naming worlds, 13 mining, 225-228
seleting game mode, 13 obsidian mining, 79
world generation style, choosing, 15 obsidian blocks
night (first),
fi surviving Nether Portals, building, 267
crafting The Nether survival checklist, 267
axes, 34 Ocean Monuments , 256-257
beds, 44-46 oceans, first-night
fi survival, 28
crafting table, 31-32, 37 ocelots (cats), 148
furnaces, 40-41 opening
heat sources, 39-40 doors, 38
light sources, 39-43 inventory, 29, 32
pickaxes, 34 ore, 79-82
shelter, 36-40 OR gates, 208
shovels, 35 OSX (Mac)
swords, 35 FN key, 23
tool handles, 32-33 Minecraft, downloading, 10
torches, 41-43 output devices, 197-199
first-day tasks, 25-26
fi dispensers, 199
inventory, checking, 29-31 doors, 198
island biomes, 28 fence gates, 198
ocean biomes, 28 hoppers, 199, 213
perimeter structures as protection, 39 note blocks, 199
trees, 27-28 pistons, 198, 204
wood, gathering, 27-28 powered rails, 198
Night Vision potion, 241 redstone lamps, 197
NOR gates, 209 redstone torches, vertical current,
Normal difficulty,
fi hunger and, 65 205-206
Normal option (Survival mode), 19 TNT, 199, 213, 216
note blocks as output devices, 199 trapdoors, 198
NOT gates (inverters), 207 overhangs, spiders and, 71
numeric durability of items, displaying, 47 Overworld, 26, 274
 platforms (Minecraft) 339

Ovo’s Rustic resource pack, 292 picking-up items in inventory, 31

oxygen bar (HUD), 54 pigmen, zombie pigmen
oxygen, building underwater, 175 fi
fighting, 102
Nether, The, 268-269, 272
pigs, 147, 155
P pillar jumping, 40, 72
pack animals, 155 piston farms, 132-133, 136
paintings, interior design and, 169 crop selection, 134
passive mobs harvesting, 134
animals as, 66-68 piston harvesters, 136-138
squid, 157 sticky piston harvesters, 139
passwords, launching Minecraft, 11 sugar cane, 142
pausing games, 27 water harvesters, 140-142
PC edition (Minecraft) pistons
technical specifications,
fi 6 as output devices, 198
video cards, 6 sliding doors, 204
PCs, downloading Minecraft, 10 pits, building
Peaceful option (Survival mode), 18, 63 mobs, 181-182
pearls (ender), Endermen and, 102 pressure plates, 182
perimeter structures, 39 pixels per texture (resource packs), 292
arrow slits, 183 placing items in inventory, 31
building, 179 planks (wood), crafting, 31
ditches, 179-180 planter boxes, building, 168
fences plants, growing
animals, 146 fantasy trees, 169
farming, 120, 128, 131 hedges, 167
lighting, 181 indoor plants, 167
mobs, 181-182 platforms, adding to shelter, 73
towers, 181 platforms (Minecraft)
walls, 182 demo platform, time span, 5
Phanatic multiplayer server, 306 downloading, 10
pickaxes PC edition
crafting, 34 technical specifications, 6
The Nether survival checklist, 266 video cards, 6
pickaxes, mining and, 78-79 Pocket Edition, 33, 56
Xbox 360 Edition, 17
340 play-testing, prerelease snapshots

play-testing, prerelease snapshots, 20-21 powered blocks, 192

Pocket Edition (Minecraft), 33, 56 buttons, 192
poison levers, 192
food poisoning, 68 two block rule, 193
rotting meat, zombies and, 95 powered minecarts, 213-214
spider eyes, 96 powered rails, 198, 215-217
poisonous potatoes, 125 Power enchantment, 233
Poison potions, 243 power sources, 186-187
ponds, 170 comparators, 196
pools, 170 compare mode, 196
pop-ups, downloading resource packs, 293 subtract mode, 196
pork chops, raw, 124 powered blocks, 192
portals buttons, 192
End Portals, 278 levers, 192
Nether Portal, 267-268 two block rule, 193
positive effect potions, 241-243 redstone, 188
potatoes, 122, 125 comparators, 196
potions powered rails, 215-217
awkward potions, 240-241 redstone wire, properties of, 190
brewing, 237 repeaters, 194-195
blaze rods, 238 torches, 187
building brewing stands, 240 repeaters, 194-195
Nether wart, 238-241 prerelease snapshots, 20-21
soul sand, 238-239 presets for Customized mode, 163-164
testing potions, 239 pressure plates, 188
The End survival checklist, 275 automatic doors, 202-203
enhancing, 242-243 detector rails, 216
fermented spider eye, 243 minecart rails, 189
glowstone dust, 242 pits, 182
gunpowder, 242 priests, villages, 248
negative effect potions, 241-243 Projectile Protection enchantment, 234
positive effect potions, 241-243 protection enchantments, 234
redstone dust, 242 puffer fish,
fi 125
skeletons, 243 pumpkin pie, 123
splash potions, 242 Punch enchantment, 233
zombies, 243 puppies, speeding up growth of, 148
 REIRs MiniMap mod website 341

purchasing Minecraft, 8-9 T-junctions, 218

pursuit mode, mobs and, 64 zig zags, 216
PvP (player versus player). See multiplayer trains, minecarts as, 214
games underground rails, 215
rain, fishing in, 156
raised beds (farming), 120, 130-132
Q raised floors, building, 171
Q key, discarding inventory items, 31 ravines, 251
quick access bar, 82 raw beef, 124
quick access grid (inventory), 30-31 raw chicken, 125
quick access slots, The Nether survival raw fish, 124
checklist, 267 raw mutton, 124
raw pork chops, 124
raw rabbit, 124
R recipes, crafting armor, 113-114
rabbit, raw, 124 redstone, 75, 185-188
rabbit stew, 123 automated farms, building, 136
Raiders of the Lost Ark, 253 comparators, 196
rails, 185 compare mode, 196
activated rails, 216 subtract mode, 196
detector rails, 189-190, 216 piston farms, creating, 136
minecarts, 211-212 powered rails, 215-217
destroying/reusing, 214 redstone dust, 242
hopper minecarts, 213 redstone lamps, 197
powered minecarts, 213-214 redstone torches, 187
storage minecarts, 213 powering blocks with, 193
TNT minecarts, 213, 216 vertical current, 205-206
trains, 214 redstone wire, properties of, 190
normal rails, 215 repeaters, 194-195
powered rails, 198, 215-217 automatic doors, 201
pressure plates, 189 sticky piston harvesters, building, 139
tracks, building Regeneration potion, 241
halfway stations, 218 registering Mojang accounts, 7-8
mobs, protecting tracks from, 219 reinforcements, zombies, 95
powered rails, 217 REI’s MiniMap mod website, 299
342 removing

removing riding animals, 56, 152

inventory items, 31 rotten meat, zombies and, 95, 125
mods, 296 running, 63-65
renaming items, anvils and, 237
repairing
anvils and, 236 S
enchantment items, 230 safety, mining and, 91
repeater loops, 210-211 saturation, hunger and, 64
repeaters, 194-195 saving crops, 130
automatic doors, 201 security
resetting biomes, 28 arrow slits, building, 183
resource packs, 160, 285, 290 ditches, building, 179-180
Dokucraft, 291-292 Minecraft, 11
downloading and pop-ups, 293 mobs, 180
Faithful 32x32, 160, 292 Mojang accounts, 8
installing, 290-292 perimeters, building, 179
Ovo’s Rustic, 292 arrow slits, 183
pixels per texture, 292 ditches, 179-180
resources lighting, 181
animals, 66 mobs, 181-182
cooking, 68 towers, 181
eating raw, 68 walls, 182
bones as, 66 pits, building
cobblestone, 66 mobs, 181-182
fishing, 69
fi pressure plates, 182
gathering, 67 pressure plates, pits, 182
harvesting, 66 towers, building, 181
skeletons as, 66 underwater, building, 179
vegetables, 66 walls, building, 182
respawning, 19 water, 180
Respiration enchantment, 179, 234 seeding, 19
resting, Peaceful mode, 63 cheats, 20
restoring games, 294 sharing, 20
reusing destroyed minecarts, 214 seeds, planting, 120-127
 singleplayer games 343

servers (multiplayer) Shift key

BeastsMC, 306 ladders, pausing on, 85
The Hive, 306 sneaking around hazards, 91
hosting, 302, 307-310 shortcuts, crafting, 38
joining, 302-305 Shotbow multiplayer server, 306
Phanatic, 306 shovels
Shotbow, 306 crafting, 35
Supercraft Brothers, 306 The Nether survival checklist, 266
whitelisted (trusted) players, 162 signals, 186-187, 190
setup buttons, 188
Mojang accounts, 7-8 automatic doors, 200
new games, configuring
fi options, 13 powered blocks, 192
sharing seeds, 20 detector rails, 190, 216
Sharpness enchantment, 233 levers, 188, 192
sheep, 147 pressure plates, 188
dyeing wool, 150 automatic doors, 202-203
crafting wool, 45-46 detector rails, 216
raw mutton, 124 minecart rails, 189
shelter weighted pressure plates, 188
building blocks, 74 redstone torches, 187
caves, 36 tripwires, 189
cliffs, 36 signs
crafting, 36-37 signcrafting, 83
decoration blocks, 75 underwater, building, 175
doors, crafting, 38 signs, placement of, 166
emergency shelters, crafting, 40 Silk Touch enchantment, 235
heat sources, crafting, 39-40 silverfish
fi spawners, 276
hills, 36 singleplayer games
housing codes, 71 Adventure mode, 17
huts, building, 70-72 Hardcore mode, 17
light sources, crafting, 39-43 multiplayer games versus, 12-13
overhangs, spiders and, 71 Survival mode, 17
pillar jumping, 40 Easy option, 19
platform, adding, 73 Hard option, 19
redstone, 75
tunneling, 37
344 singleplayer games

Normal option, 19 Sneak key (Left Shift), The Nether, 269

Peaceful option, 18 snow blocks, The Nether survival checklist,
skeletons, 62 267
arrows and, 98, 110 snow golems, fighting,
fi 104
as resources, 66 Snowy biome, 15
bones, farming benefits,
fi 129 soft blocks, building underwater, 174, 178
fighting, 97-98
fi soil, farming, 120
potions, 243 soul sand
spider jockeys, fighting,
fi 99 brewing potions, 238-239
wither skeletons, 273 The Nether, 269
skins, 285-286 spawners
changing, 286-289 blaze spawners, 271
skin editor websites disabling, 251
Minecraftskins, 289 silverfish
fi spawners, 276
Novaskin, 289 spawning
Skincraft, 288 cheats, 44
superhero skins, 299 defi
fining, 19
Steve, 286 mobs, 106
sleep spawn points, 13, 174
beds Spectator mode, 310
crafting, 44-46 spider eye, 125
taking with you, 46 spiders, 62
The End, 274-276 cave spiders, fighting, 98-99
mining and, 91 defending against, 96
mobs and, 91 ditches, crossing, 179
The Nether, 274 eyes as food, 96
time and, 44 fermented spider eye, potions and, 243
villages and, 247 fighting, 96-97
sliding doors, building, 203-205 overhangs and, 71
slimeballs, 101 spider jockeys, fighting,
fi 99
slimes, 63, 100-101 string, 96
slots, quick access slots, 267 uses for, 96
Slowness potions, 243 spiral staircases, mining and, 87-88
Smite enchantment, 233 splash potions, 242
snapshots, prerelease snapshots, 20-21 sponge blocks, 178
sneaking, 91, 130 sprinting, 63
 structures 345

combat and, 109 structures

effects of, 64-65 basins, 251
hunger and, 64-65 caverns, 251
squid, 157 desert temples, 251-252
stacking inventory items, 30 dungeons, 254
staging points, mining and, 91 The End strongholds, finding,
fi 276-277
stained objects, 170 Generate Structures selection (More
staircases World Options), 245
The Nether, 269 Generate Structures setting (Create New
World screen), 13
spiral staircases, mining and, 87-88
jungle temples, 253
straight staircases, mining and, 86-87
Large Biomes option, 245
stations (halfway), building tracks, 218
mineshafts, abandoned mineshafts, 255
steel and flint
fl
negative structures, 251
Nether Portals, 268
Nether fortresses, 257
The Nether survival checklist, 267
finding, 269-270
Steve (character skin), 286
survival tips, 271-272
stew, creating, 144
ravines, 251
sticky piston harvesters, 139
spawners, disabling, 251
stone buttons, 188
strongholds, 255
automatic doors, 200
villages, 245
powered blocks, 192
appearances of, 246
stone (material type), 58
beds, 247
storage
blacksmiths, 248
chests, 60
butchers, 248
crafting, 61
children, 247-249
Ender chests, 62
commonality of, 245
opening, 61
farmers, 248
sizes of, 60
finding, 248
minecarts, 213
interacting with inhabitants, 246-249
storage area (inventory), 30
iron golems and, 246
storing enchantments with books, 231
librarians, 248
straight staircases, mining and, 86-87
priests, 248
string (spiders), 96
sleeping in, 247
strongholds, 255, 276-277
trading with inhabitants, 247-249
346 structures

uses of, 246 torches,crafting, 41-43

zombies and, 246-247, 250 trees, 27-28
witch huts, 253 Swiftness potion, 241
subtract mode (comparators), 196 swimming, creepers and, 100
sugar cane, 122 swimming pools, 170
automated farms, 142 swinging doors, 200
growing, 120 switches. See levers
piston farms, 142 swords
Supercraft Brothers multiplayer server, 306 blocking attacks, 109
superflat
fl worlds, 15 crafting, 35, 108
superhero mods website, 299 damage, dealing, 109
Survival mode, 17 The End survival checklist, 275
Easy option, 19 fighting with, 63
Hard option, 19 The Nether survival checklist, 266
hunger, 65
inventory, moving items to Creative mode
inventory, 76 T
Normal option, 19
tables
Peaceful option, 18
building
underwater, building, 173
bedside tables, 166
surviving the first
fi night
dining tables, 166
checking inventory, 29-31
enchantment tables, 225
crafting a crafting table, 31-32, 37
books, 228
beds, crafting, 44-46
casting enchantments, 228-230
fi
first-day tasks, 25-26
obsidian, 225-228
furnaces, crafting, 40-41
taming animals, 106, 147, 152
gathering wood, 27-28
teleporting players into LAN parties, 303
heat sources, crafting, 39-40
temples
island biomes, 28
desert temples, 251-252
light sources, crafting, 39-43
jungle temples, 253
ocean biomes, 28
tending farms, 120
perimeter structures, 39
tennis courts, building, 170
shelter, crafting, 36-40
testing potions, 239
tool handles, crafting, 32
texture packs. See resource packs
tools, crafting, 33-35
textures, pixels per (resource packs), 292
Thorns enchantment, 234
 travel 347

time, sleeping and, 44 mining, 78

T-junctions, building tracks, 218 underwater, building, 174-176
TNT towers, building, 181
as output devices, 199 tracks, building
TNT minecarts, 213, 216 halfway stations, 218
Tolkien, J.R.R., 160 mobs, protecting tracks from, 219
tools powered rails, 217
crafting T-junctions, 218
axes, 34 zig zags, 216
durability, 59 trading
handles, 32-33 versus fighting, 266
pickaxes, 34 with villages, 247-249
shovels, 35 trains
swords, 35 minecarts as, 214
durability, 47, 59 rails, 185
enchantments, 235 activated rails, 216
The End survival checklist, 275 detector rails, 190, 216
improving, 58 normal rails, 215
mining, 78-79 powered rails, 198, 215-217
The Nether survival checklist, 266 tracks, building
pickaxes, 78-79 halfway stations, 218
tools category (Creative mode inventory), mobs, protecting tracks from, 219
75 powered rails, 217
wearing down, 59 T-junctions, 218
Too Many Items mod website, 297 zig zags, 216
torches underground rails, 215
bedside tables and, 166 transportation
crafting, 41-43 boats, crafting, 156
farming and lighting, 120, 129 Creative mode inventory, 75
The Nether survival checklist, 267 donkeys, 152-153
The Nether, 269-271 horses, 152-153
perimeters, 181 mules, 152-153
powering blocks with, 193 trapdoors as output devices, 198
redstone torches, 187, 205-206 trapped chests, 189
mines, 83 travel. See transportation
348 treasure

treasure underwater bases, mob attacks, 55

abandoned mineshafts, 255 underwater, building, 172, 177-178
desert temples, 251-252 Creative mode, 172
dungeons, 254 doors, 175
emeralds, farming, 250 enchantments, 179
Ender pearls, 266 flooding, 178
jungle temples, 253 island spawn points, 174
Nether fortresses, 257 ladders, 175
spawners, disabling, 251 lighting, 174-176
strongholds, 255 location, 175
witch huts, 253 oxygen, 175
trees required equipment, 173-174
biomes, 27 security, 179
first-night survival, 27 signs, 175
growing, 169 soft blocks, 174, 178
lumberjacking, 28 Survival mode, 173
tripwires, 189 updates, farming and, 126
trusted (whitelisted) players, 162 usernames, launching Minecraft, 11
tunnels, 37
abandoned mineshafts, 255
ditches and, 180 V
doors, importance of, 95 vandalism, 162
lighting, 70 vegetables, harvesting, 66
The Nether, 269 versions (Minecraft)
underground rails, 215 demo version, time span, 5
turning on/off Cheats, 74 downloading, 10
PC edition

U technical specifications, 6
video cards, 6
Unbreaking enchantment, 235 Pocket edition, crafting in, 33
underground version 1.8, Customized mode, 163
abandoned mineshafts, 255 Good Luck preset, 164
dungeons, 254 presets, 163
rails, 215 settings, 165
strongholds, 255 Xbox 360 Edition, 17, 33
 weapons 349

vertical current, 205-206 water

video cards, Minecraft PC edition, 6 boats, crafting, 156
Video Settings menu (game options), con- fishing, 156
fi
figuring The Nether options, 269 boats, 156
viewing achievements, 48 rain and, 156
villages, 245 floating blocks, 162
fl
appearances of, 246 fountains, 169
beds, 247 The Nether, 266
building next to, 161 obsidian, mining, 225-228
commonality of, 245 permanent watering holes, digging, 128
fi
finding, 248 ponds, 170
inhabitants pools, 170
blacksmiths, 248 security, 180
butchers, 248 underwater, building, 172, 177-178
children, 247-249 Creative mode, 172
farmers, 248 doors, 175
interacting with, 246-249 enchantments, 179
librarians, 248 flooding, 178
priests, 248 island spawn points, 174
trading with, 247-249 ladders, 175
iron golems and, 246 lighting, 174-176
sleeping in, 247 location, 175
uses of, 246 oxygen, 175
wells, 251 required equipment, 173-174
zombies and, 246-247, 250 security, 179
signs, 175
soft blocks, 174, 178
W Survival mode, 173
wall clocks, building, 169 water affinity,
fi 179
wall maps, building, 169 water harvesters, 140-142
walls Weakness potions, 243
building, 72, 182 weapons, 108
spider-proof, 96 bows and arrows, 112
crafting, 109-110
target practice, 111
350 weapons

critical hits, 108 Windows, downloading Minecraft, 10

durability bar, 47 witch huts, 253
enchantments, 233 Wither Boss, 273
Ender Dragon, defeating, 278-281 wither skeletons, 273
The End survival checklist, 275 wolves, 106, 147
The Nether survival checklist, 266-267 wood, 58, 78
Peaceful mode, resting via, 63 gathering for fi
first-night survival, 27-28
swords The Nether survival checklist, 267
blocking attacks, 109 planks, crafting, 31
crafting, 108 wood buttons, 188
damage, 109 automatic doors, 200
fighting with, 63 powered blocks, 192
web resources wool
mods crafting, 45-46
finding, 301 dyeing, 150
Legendary Beasts website, 300 worlds
More Explosives website, 298 biomes, 15-17
More Mobs website, 300 Create New World screen, 13-14
REI’s MiniMap website, 299 creating, 13-14
superheroes website, 299 naming, 13
Too Many Items website, 297 Overworld, 26
multiplayer server websites, 306 world generation style, choosing, 15
skin editors World Type setting (Create New World
Minecraftskins, 289 screen), 13
Novaskin, 289
Skincraft, 288
superheroes, 299
X
websites, Far Lands or Bust, 16 Xbox 360 edition
weighted pressure plates, 188 crafting in, 33
wells, villages and, 251 biomes, 17
wheat, 122, 250 XP (experience points)
farming, 119 earning, 232
growth cycles, 129 enchantments, 223, 229
harvesting, 69, 129-131 managing, 232
whitelisted (trusted) players, 162
 zooming in/out maps 351

Y-Z potions, 243

reinforcements, 95
YouTube, fi
finding architectural plans, 162 rotten meat, 95
villages and, 246-247, 250
zig-zag tracks, building, 216 wells, 251
zip files,
fi mods as, 296 zombie pigmen, 102, 268-269, 272
zombies, 62 zooming in/out maps, 259
arrows, crafting, 110
fighting, 94-95
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