Tutorials

The list below contains tutorials describing various factors of Minecraft.

Newcomers[]

These tutorials are designed to help newcomers to Minecraft get a basic ground beneath their feet.

• Menu screen
• Game terms

Newcomer survival[]

• The first day/Beginner's guide
• Your first 10 minutes
• The second day
• The third day
• Hunger management
• Navigation
• Things not to do
• Simple tips and tricks
• Best biomes to play

Shelters[]

• Building and construction
• Shelters
• Shelter types
• Best biomes for homes
• Best building materials
• Desert shelter

Essential[]

These tutorials are intended for right after you have a roof over your head and a renewable food source. These tutorials shed light on some of the core fixtures of Minecraft gameplay. As such, you should consider reading them all.

General[]

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

Construction[]

Challenges[]

Non-standard survival[]

Challenge maps[]

Exploiting bugs[]

These tutorials rely on bugs to work and may be fixed at any time. Some servers may consider the use of these bugs as bannable.

• Bedrock farming
• Block and item duplication
• Breaking bedrock
• Headless pistons
• Indestructible end crystals
• X-ray glitches
• Update suppression

Farming[]

These tutorials provide information on 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[]

OP farms[]

This section is for farms which are extremely overpowered and produce much more drops than the casual Minecraft player needs, and require their own article to explain it in detail.

Enchanting and smelting[]

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

•  Enchanting mechanics
•  Anvil mechanics
•  Automatic smelting
•  Smelting

Block breaking[]

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

• Blast chamber
• Igniting TNT underwater
• Wither cage

Redstone and mechanisms[]

These tutorials provide information on redstone mechanisms.

Redstone basics[]

• 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.
• Mechanics/Redstone: The basic game mechanics for redstone power and signals.
• Mechanics/Redstone/Components: The blocks that are used in and with redstone contraptions.
• Tutorials/Redstone tips: Hints and advice for building your redstone devices.
• Mechanics/Redstone/Circuit: Lists various types of reusable circuits that can be used to manipulate signals, with sub-pages giving examples of the various types.

Various devices[]

• Tutorials/Hopper: Hoppers are key for item handling and sorting.
• Tutorials/Item sorting: Sorts items.
• Tutorials/Mechanisms: Lists an assortment of complete devices using redstone.
• Tutorials/Minecarts: Large railway systems can benefit from redstone at the terminals.
• Tutorials/Redstone music: Creating music with Note Blocks and redstone circuits.
• Tutorials/Rube Goldberg machine: Complexity and spectacle!
• Tutorials/Storage minecarts: Loading and unloading chests and hopper minecarts.

Traps[]

• Snow golems
• TNT cannons
• Trapdoor uses
• Traps and Trap design
• Zombie villager sorting

Redstone (advanced)[]

• Flying machines
• Advanced redstone circuits
• Redstone computers
• Hourly clock
• Morse code
• Redstone telegraph

Servers[]

These tutorials provide information on how servers work and how to set up one.

• Setting up a server
• Setting up a LAN world
• Hamachi connection LAN
• Setting up a Minecraft Forge server
• Setting up a Spigot server
• Ramdisk enabled server
• Server maintenance
• Griefing prevention
• Multiplayer survival
• Playing on servers
• Spawn jails for multiplayer

Technical[]

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

Creating Minecraft media[]

• Videos
• Livestreaming

Bedrock Edition only[]

• Achievement guide
• Joining and leaving the beta
• Propelling boats uphill

Other[]

• Minecraft help FAQ
• Minecraft in education

Outdated 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 (Outdated) — 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 - Blocks no longer drop items when data packs are disabled with the Village & Pillage update.
• Door-based iron golem farming - Villages are no longer based around doors with the Village & Pillage update.
• Village chaining - Villages are no longer based around doors with the Village & Pillage update.
• 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.