Tutorials

Introductory

What edition do I have?

Java Edition is the computer version, subtitled on the main menu.

Bedrock Edition refers to the game on Windows and all other platforms, simply known as Minecraft on the main menu.

Designed for newcomers to Minecraft to get a basic understanding of the game.

• Menu screen
  • Java Edition
  • Bedrock Edition
• Glossary
• Playing with a controller

Beginner guides

Beginner's guide

Your first 10 minutes

The second day

The third day

Newcomer survival

• Best biomes to play
• Durability management
• Hunger management
• Things to do
• Things not to do
• Simple tips and tricks

Shelters

• Best biomes for homes
• Best building materials
• Building and construction
• Building safe homes
• Defense
• Navigation
• Shelters
  • Types

Version overviews

A quick overview of all major changes made in an update. See Tutorial:Version overviews for a list of update guides.

General

Getting to know the game better. These are for when the player is comfortably established.

• Achievement guide
  • Legacy Console Edition
• Advancement guide
  • Minecraft
  • Nether
  • The End
  • Adventure
  • Husbandry
  • How Did We Get Here?
• Adventuring
• Best enchantments guide
• Breaking a fall
• Bridging
• Chunk loader
• Combat
• Complete main adventure
• Creating a village
• Dual wielding
• Exploring caves
• Gathering food
• Getting max gear
• Hitboxes
• Horses
• Mapping
• Measuring distance
• Minecraft in education
• Mining
  • Ancient debris
  • Diamonds
  • Fossils
  • Ore veins
• Nether hub
• Nether portals
• Organization
• Parkour
• Pillar jumping
• Phantom-proofing
• Spawn-proofing
• Things to do when bored
• Time-saving tips
• Transportation methods
• Units of measure
• Village mechanics
  • Trading
• Zombie siege defense

Enchanting and smelting

These tutorials provide information on how the furnaces and the enchantment system work.

• Enchanting table mechanics
• Anvil mechanics
• Automatic smelting
• Manual smelting

Non-standard survival

Tutorials that involve a non-standard environment.

• Desert survival
  • Infinite desert survival
• Snowy survival
  • Infinite ice spikes survival
• Managing slimes in superflat mode
• Mushroom fields survival
• End survival
• Gathering resources on Peaceful difficulty
• Nether survival
• Accessing the void
• Thunderstorm survival
• Surviving in a single area for a long time
• Island survival

Advanced

Tutorials that require using exploits or commands.

• Breaking bedrock
• Headless pistons
• Indestructible End crystals
• Summoning jockeys
• X-ray glitches

Challenges

These tutorials are for guiding players through mid- to late-game challenges as well as explaining how to survive non standard survival.

Exploring structures & biomes

Surface

• Conquering a mountain
• Conquering an ocean monument
• Looting temples
• Mastering the pale garden
• Conquering a pillager outpost
• Exploring a woodland mansion
• Looting a shipwreck

Underground

• Defeating a monster room
• Defeating a stronghold
• Defeating trial chambers
• Exploring a mineshaft
• Exploring the deep dark and ancient city
  • Killing the warden

Nether & End

• Looting a bastion remnant
• Exploring a Nether fortress
• Exploring an End city
• Mastering the warped forest
• Mastering the crimson forest

Non-standard survival

April Fools' Updates

• The Craftmine Update
• The Vote Update

Challenge maps

Construction

These tutorials describe various styles of construction and explain building skills.

Block breaking

These tutorials provide information on how to break blocks automatically, usually by an explosion.

• Blast chamber
• Igniting TNT underwater
• Wither cage

Farming

Items

Mobs

April Fools' Updates

Mechanics

These tutorials provide information on redstone mechanisms.

Basic redstone

• Redstone tutorials: Roundup of all redstone-related tutorials (some are also linked below)
• Mechanics: The basic game mechanics for redstone power and signals.
• Components: The blocks that are used in and with redstone contraptions.
• Circuits: Lists various types of reusable circuits that can be used to manipulate signals, with sub-pages giving examples of the various types.
• Tips: Hints and advice for building your redstone devices.
• Sculk: Hints for using sculk sensors and shriekers.

Various devices

• Automatic double doors: Double-wide doors that open for the player but keep mobs out.
• Automatic respawn anchor recharger: Recharges respawn anchors so they can be used again.
• Combination locks: Locks that only open with the right combination entered.
• Command blocks and functions: Making many contraptions using command blocks.
• Crafter: Automated crafting systems.
• Flying machines: Slime block contraptions that can fly.
• Hopper: Hoppers are key for item handling and sorting.
• Item sorting: Sorts items.
• Item transportation: Moves items.
• Mechanisms: Lists an assortment of complete devices using redstone.
• Randomizers: Generates random outputs.
• Redstone music: Creating music with note blocks and redstone circuits.
• Rube Goldberg machine: Complexity and spectacle!
• Shulker box storage: A storage system that relies on shulker boxes.

Detectors

• Block update detector Sends a signal if a block state changes.
• Comparator update detector: Sends a signal if a comparator detects a change in a block.
• Daylight detector: Sends a signal if the light changes.

Minecarts

• Minecarts: Large railway systems can benefit from redstone at the terminals.
• Storage minecarts: Loading and unloading chests and hopper minecarts.
  • Digital: Digital method of loading and unloading chests and hopper minecarts.
• Minecart trains: Working with more than one minecart.
  • Furnace minecarts: For trains of minecarts that will never reverse direction due to bumping into a mob.

Traps

• Iron golems
• Snow golems
• TNT cannons
• Trapdoor uses
• Trap design
• Traps

Pistons

• Piston uses
• Piston circuits
• Quasi-connectivity
• Soft inversion
• Zero-ticking
• Instant repeaters

Tripwire

• Tripwire techniques

Advanced redstone

• Arithmetic logic
• Base converters
• Calculator
• Command stats
• Hourly clock
• Morse code
• Printing
• Redstone computers
• Redstone telegraph
• Serial interface locks
• 360 degree ender pearl cannon

Multiplayer

These tutorials provide technical information on servers and tips for multiplayer.

• Griefing prevention
• Hiding chests
• Multiplayer survival
• Spawn jail
• Playing on servers
• PvP
  • Java Edition
  • Bedrock Edition
• Bases
• Joining a LAN world with alternate accounts

Server setup

• Setting up a Java Edition server
  • Forge server
  • Setting up a Spigot server
• Setting up a Bedrock Edition server
• Server maintenance
• Setting up a LAN world
• Server startup script
  • FreeBSD startup script
  • OpenBSD startup script
  • Ubuntu startup script
• Hamachi connection LAN
• Ramdisk enabled server
• Improving Server I/O utilising memory
• Crossplay

Technical

These tutorials provide information on technical matters, such as mods and snapshots.

• Creating Forge mods
• Moving structures using structure blocks from world to world
• Improving frame rate
• Minecraft help FAQ
• Programs and editors
  • Note Block Studio
• Running the data generator
• Update Java
• See Minecraft's code
• Downgrading
• Restoring a Hardcore world
• Adding profiles to the new launcher
• Useful commands
• Minecraft in VR

Maps

• Importing and exporting worlds
• Command NBT tags
• Falling blocks
• Updating old terrain using MCEdit

Resource packs

• Creating a resource pack
• Loading a resource pack
• Models
• Sound directory
• Making custom panoramas

Data packs

These tutorials are exclusive to Java Edition.

• Adding a new dimension
• Adding custom enchantments
• Adding custom paintings
• Adding custom trims
• Creating a data pack
• Custom structures
• Importing a data pack
• Repairing a world corrupted by a data pack

Creating Minecraft media

• Creating videos
• Livestreaming
• Hide Server IP

Game installation

• Installing versions
• Installing Minecraft Preview and beta versions
• How to get a crash report
• Custom Minecraft directory
• Playing and saving Minecraft on a thumb drive
• Playing Minecraft on Linux
• Recover corrupted saved world data
• Run Minecraft through Google Drive
• Save game data to Dropbox (world data only)
• Saved data Dropbox guide
• Create a Mac OS X startup daemon
• Playing Java Edition on ChromeOS
• Third-party launchers

Legacy tutorials

The following tutorials are obsolete and intended for older versions of Minecraft. They are kept here for historical purposes.

Farming

• Door-based iron golem farming — Villages are no longer based around doors with the Village & Pillage update.
• Bedrock farming —All designs have become unusable following the bug fixes.
• Potion farming — This method of potion farming was patched in version 1.17.30 as a result of being too overpowered. Witch farms can still give potions, however.
• End of light mob farms — Patched in 22w12a

Villages

• Legacy village mechanics — Villages are no longer based around doors with the Village & Pillage update.
• Village chaining — Villages are no longer based around doors with the Village & Pillage update.

Glitches

• Far Lands — Only existed before Beta 1.8

Contraptions

• Water tram - Boat mechanics have been overhauled
• Repeater reboot system — A glitch that existed in Beta only
• Water ladder — No longer works as given, water behavior has changed a lot since Beta
• Instant wire — A glitch that existed in Beta
• Minecart booster — Minecart boosters were fixed shortly after the introduction of powered rails.

Challenges

• Survival with no data packs — Since 1.16, this is no longer possible as data packs are now validated before the world is created, and some tags are necessary for the data packs to be valid.

Construction

• Man-made lake — These methods are no longer needed since water is more obliging

Other

• Custom texture packs — texture packs are no longer used, resource packs use new file structure
• How to get a crash report (old) — No longer works with the current launcher
• Update LWJGL — Current launcher automatically updates libraries
• Update Minecraft — Updating and downgrading Minecraft is automatic in the new launcher
• Custom world generation
• Obtaining removed blocks and items — Information on how to obtain features that could only be collected in older versions but can be updated into future versions.
• Playing and saving Minecraft on a thumb drive with the old launcher
• Dispenser crash exploit