Tutorials

This article is about user-created tutorials. For survival mode tutorial hints, see Tutorial hints. For the tutorial world that existed in Legacy Console Edition, see Legacy Console Edition Tutorial. For tutorials for Minecraft Dungeons, see MCD:Tutorials. For official books containing tutorials, see Minecraft books.

The list below contains tutorials describing various factors and mechanics of Minecraft.

Introductory

These tutorials are designed to help newcomers to Minecraft get a basic understanding of the game.

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

Newcomer survival

• Beginner's guide
  • Your first 10 minutes
  • The second day
  • The third day
• 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
• Navigation
• Shelters
  • Types

General

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

Enchanting and smelting

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

•  Enchanting 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
• Mushroom fields survival
• End survival
• Gathering resources on Peaceful difficulty
• Managing slimes in superflat mode
• 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

Underground

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

Nether & End

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

Non-standard survival

Challenge maps

Construction

Block breaking

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

• Blast chamber
• Igniting TNT underwater
• Wither cage

Farming

These tutorials provide information on item, crop, and mob farming. In most cases, the player has a choice among a variety of farming methods and designs. While a huge automatic farm may be useful where large supplies of something are needed, it's important to remember that a small, simple farm can easily provide enough resources for an early-game player, or casual use in general.

Items

Mobs

Mechanisms

These tutorials provide information on redstone mechanisms.

Basic redstone

• Redstone tutorials: Roundup of all redstone-related tutorials (some are also linked below)
• Redstone dust: The core material that enables most redstone devices, being crafted into many of them and also placed to carry signals.
• Redstone mechanics: The basic game mechanics for redstone power and signals.
• Redstone components: The blocks that are used in and with redstone contraptions.
• Redstone circuits: Lists various types of reusable circuits that can be used to manipulate signals, with sub-pages giving examples of the various types.
• Redstone tips: Hints and advice for building your redstone devices.
• Sculk redstone: 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.
• Observer stabilizer: Keeps observer-based contraptions from continuously firing.
• 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
• Traps and Trap design

Pistons

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

Tripwire

• Tripwire techniques

Advanced redstone

• Advanced redstone circuits
• Arithmetic logic
• Calculator
• Command stats
• Hourly clock
• Morse code
• Printing
• Redstone computers
• Redstone telegraph
• 360 degree ender pearl cannon

Multiplayer

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

• Playing on servers
• Multiplayer survival
• Spawn jails for multiplayer
• Griefing prevention
• Hiding chests
• PvP (Java Edition)
  • PvP bases
• PvP (Bedrock Edition)
• PvP (Combat Tests)
• PvP (1.8)
• Joining a LAN world with alternate accounts

Server setup

• Setting up a Java Edition server
  • Setting up a Minecraft 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.

• Moving structures using structure blocks from world to world
• Improving frame rate
• Minecraft help FAQ
• Note Block Studio
• Programs and editors
• Running the data generator
• Update Java to latest version
• See Minecraft's code
• Downgrading
• Creating Forge mods
• Minecraft in VR

Maps

• Custom maps
• Importing and exporting worlds
• Command NBT tags
• Falling blocks
• Updating old terrain

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.

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

Creating Minecraft media

• Videos
• Livestreaming
• Hide server IP

Game installation

• Installing a version
• Installing Minecraft Preview and beta versions
• Obtaining 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)
• Saving data Dropbox guide
• Create a Mac OS X startup daemon
• Java Edition on Chrome OS
• Third-party launchers

Legacy tutorials

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

• 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
• Water tram - Boat mechanics have been overhauled
• Repeater reboot system — A glitch that existed in Beta only
• Update LWJGL (Legacy) — Current launcher automatically updates libraries
• Custom lake — These methods are no longer needed since water is more obliging
• Water ladder — No longer works as given, water behavior has changed a lot since Beta
• Installing mods - Modloader — ModLoader is no longer supported by its creator
• Far Lands — Only existed before Beta 1.8
• Instant wire — A glitch that existed in Beta
• Update Minecraft — Updating and downgrading Minecraft is automatic in the new launcher
• Minecart booster — Minecart boosters were fixed shortly after the introduction of powered rails.
• Survival with no enabled 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.
• Door-based iron golem farming — Villages are no longer based around doors with the Village & Pillage update.
• 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.
• 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
• Custom world generation
• Obtaining discontinued features — 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