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That's over 9000 people! _________________________________________________________ / \ | T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S | \_________________________________________________________/ / \ | Version History.............................0000 | |---------------------------------------------------------| | Basics of Minecraft.........................0001 | |---------------------------------------------------------| | Minecraft Skills............................0002 | | Mining/Collecting.......................0003 | | Minecarts...........................003a | | Minecart Tracks.....................003b | | Crafting................................0004 | | Dyeing Wool.........................004a | | Exploring + Gathering...................0005 | | Building................................0006 | | Misc....................................0007 | | Redstone Circuitry..................007a | |---------------------------------------------------------| | Blocks: Purposes and Uses...................0008 | |---------------------------------------------------------| | Mobs........................................0009 | | Surviving the First Night...................0010 | | The Nether..................................0011 | |---------------------------------------------------------| | Items.......................................0012 | |---------------------------------------------------------| | Mods and Texture Packs......................0013 | | Future Update Rumors........................0014 | |---------------------------------------------------------| | FAQ.........................................0015 | | Credits.....................................0016 | | Legal + Contact Stuff.......................0017 | \_________________________________________________________/ ______ ____________________ / \/ \ | 0000 | Version History | \______/\____________________/ Version 0.1 - Bare Bones (January 3, 2011) Began work on the guide! I took care of the most likely things people would want to know right away. Things such as Basics, Skills, the basic Blocks, and how to survive the first night of gameplay. Items and such were left out because the complete beginner can grasp the conceopts of the main items just by reading the guide so far. In later updates I'll add stuff to missing sections and make the Table of Contents better. Version 0.2 - Fixes and Additions (January 6, 2011) I received an email from Yakkity Yak concerning my pickaxe recipe screw-up. I have fixed it now and Yakkity Yak has earned a spot in my credits list. This update will focus on some stuff about the Nether, since my recent experiments concerned it primarily. Item section updates in the future! Version 0.3 - Items Section Started (January 7, 2011) Finally began the Items section, however it's extremely limited right at the moment. Just a few necessary recipes. Added things to the Mods and Texture Packs section. The guide can now be found on neoseeker.com as I gave them permission to host it, but it'll likely not be as up-to-date as the one on gamefaqs. Version 0.4 - Beta v1.2 out (January 15, 2011) A few days ago Minecraft Beta updated to version 1.2, which added in a heap of new things. You can now dye wool from sheep, among other things. These changes will be detailed in their appropriate sections. Neoseeker doesn't seem to have my guide up yet, so I'll have to look into that. I also added a subsection under 'Crafting' for dyeing wool. It's called 'Dyeing Wool' appropriately enough. It deserved it's own section in my opinion. I also added a 'Future Update Rumors' section. In this I'll put what's rumored to be in future updates, such as new mobs, new items, etc. List of new features: 15 New Wool dyes Squid as a water mob Lapis Lazuli added as an ore (EXTREMELY RARE IN GAME) Birch + Redwood + some other type of tree added Reeds are now sugar cane (still make paper somehow) Cake (yes, it is not a lie) Note Blocks: tuned with right-click, played using redstone dust trail trigger, can be tuned through two octaves of notes New Paintings Version 0.5 - New Discovery, Blocks Section Update (January 17, 2011) Today I discovered that you can make Charcoal as a coal substitute. I will explain how to do this in the 'Crafting' section. Also, I did some work on the 'Blocks' section, making it better, but there's still a lot to do for it. All I did for it for right now is add some blocks and listed some basic uses. In the future, I will make more detailed descriptions. I added some stuff about the Nether, and some other various things. Version 0.6 - Mob section is now much better (January 20, 2011) I overhauled the Mobs section to make it better. Now the Mobs are listed with not only what they do, but what you can do with them and they're applicable secondary effects (ex: dropping items). I've also put in some new info that's come to me through emails of readers. Keep them coming! I need to make this guide as great as possible, which is only possible with feedback and suggestions from you guys. Version 0.7 - Large, long-awaited, much needed update (February 16, 2011) It's been a little while since I updated the guide. I had exams at school, so studying has taken up my time entirely (it's a shame, cutting into Minecraft and Starcraft II time). Also, I've had other things that preoccupied my time since exams, and all I've been able to do is pick away at this. But now I'm back, and the guide is bigger, better, and now more widespread than ever. I've granted some more requests for hosting the guide on other sites, and they'll be in the legal stuff section. I've added a new sub-section for Redstone Circuitry (under the Misc section, but it'll be in the table of contents with it's own search code). I also added some things on bonemeal (neat stuff), underwater lighting, the Nether's step ratio, minecarts, the recipe for the cake (and some more info on it as well), and how the iron door works. Bonemeal stuff is in the Misc section, underwater lighting and iron doors are in the Building section, the Nether step stuff is in the Nether section, and minecarts have their own section under Mining. I also updated the legal stuff. I'm implementing an apology system for people that steal my guide. If you steal it, and I find out, then I will confront you. If you apologize, then ask me to host the guide, I will allow it. However, if you frequently do this, then you're apologies will be considered empty to me and you'll never host any of my guides again. Think of it as a "three strikes, you're out" kind of thing. This is so people who had a random lapse in intelligence can have a second chance. People that use the guide, and claim it as their own work, don't get the apology option. They are immediately and permanently banned from using my guides ever. So, take this whole rant as a dire warning, because while I'm quite lenient, I only take it so far. Version 0.71 - New host permissions (February 18, 2011) Just some additions to the list of people who have permission to host my guide. It might be going onto a Fortune 100 website soon! That'll give it some great recognition. But I can't take full credit for this opportunity. All of this recognition was made possible by you guys, my loyal, patient readers. If you didn't read it and give it an audience, than it would have been pointless. So, great thanks is in order for all! Version 0.8 - Minecraft Beta 1.3 is out (March 14, 2011) A while ago Notch released Beta v1.3. This has a number of general bugfixes, as well as adding some new things in. There are three new kinds of half-blocks and now we have beds. Yep, beds. If everyone on a server "sleeps" in a bed, then the night goes instantly to day. This is also in single player mode, so now you can skip a night out with those dreadful lethal mobs and relax it away. I will have recipes for those half-blocks in a later update, once I find out what they are. With v1.3, there is a new save type for maps. Meaning old maps have to be converted. This can be done offline through your game launcher. You can now have more than five saved worlds! So for those people that had a ton of world juggling that they had to do, they need not worry any longer. It's a fantastic change, and one that I personally welcome. A apologize for the long periods between updates. I've had a ton to do over the last while, and unfortunately I have to do these things before I can work on the guide. Version 0.9 - Amendments and a warning to readers (March 19, 2011) Hello faithful readers! None of you are likely aware of this, but recently I had someone steal my guide and claim it as their own. I tried to resolve the whole thing, but it went nowhere. Fortunately, the person who stole the guide posted it on some obscure backwater website that doesn't even have a link to the guide. Not only that, but a search with all major search engines (Google, Bing, etc.) turn up with nothing about the stolen copy of the guide. The screen name of this thief is El Gruntox. I would recommend that readers of this legitimate guide avoid his. He even misspelled "Copyright" as "Copyrigth" and honestly did a poor job of covering over my legal stuff. But enough about that minor travesty, I have a legit guide to update for the true, respectful readers of my guide! This update includes some additions to the list of sites allowed to host my guide (as well as my first blacklist entry, ha). There are also some ammendments to things concerning Ghasts and Gold records. I've also decided to put in the new recipes for slabs (new half blocks that came in the Beta v1.3 update). Also, Notch is putting Wolves in the Beta v1.4 update when it comes out. Info on them will be in the Rumors section. I saw a youtube video from one of Notch's programmers, the wolves look awesome. I'll put up the address to the video in the Rumors section as well. Oh, and before I forget, I added a mini article on Sneaking (an incredibly useful skill) that was written for me by a reader named Narfnin. He did a great job on the mini article, and to recognize that I'm using it word-for-word, and giving him full credit for it. It is under the Exploring + Gathering section. Version 0.91 - New confirmed rumors, added a mob (March 28, 2011) Today is just a minor update to the Rumors section. There are confirmed wolves for the next update, and it appears that you tame them with bones. Also there is the ability to change your spawn point, and a new acievements and stat tracker system. It sounds like it'll be pretty awesome when it comes out. Also, a man named Bruce Ragas pointed out that I forgot about the Slime mob. It's now in the Mobs section of the guide. ______ ________________________ / \/ \ | 0001 | Basics of Minecraft | \______/\________________________/ I'll start you off with some back story to the game. Minecraft is a game created by a guy named Notch. It is a giant sandbox style game. For those who don't know what a sandbox game is, it is a type of game where the player is free to play the game however they choose. There are no goals set by the game, no missions, nothing. You decide how to procede through the game. The game at the time of writing is in beta. You can buy it for about 20 Euros. I'm not going to waste time by converting that to monetary units for other places; you can do that yourself. If you pre-bought the game while it was in Alpha, you get the updates at no extra cost. If you bought the game after the beta was released, you have to pay for each update. Yeah, it's kind of dumb, but I guess that's the price you pay for being late in knowing about the game. Note that I don't think that, but I imagine that's the mindset of a lot of other people. There is also a "classic" mode to play online on the Minecraft site. It is free to play, but very much outdated. I recommend playing that to see if you like it, before shelling out the money to buy the game. You can also join multiplayer servers to fiddle around with other people. I don't have much experience regarding this, but I'm pretty sure that there are two kinds of servers: build and survival. Build is just a bunch of people building (and destroying) stuff for the sake of building and destroying stuff. Survival is a fight to survive against mobs (covered later along in the guide). I won't go into any detail about multiplayer, having next to no knowledge about it. This guide will focus on the beta version of the game. Now, for the actual basics of gameplay. You're main objectives within the game are to collect blocks to build shelters, tools, etc. You can collect, or "mine" these blocks by hitting them by hand or with tools until they break. A smaller version of the block will then appear. It can be collected by walking up to it. I'll go in to further detail about this in the next section. Of course, you need to know how to move around right? The controls for Minecraft are your standard WASD controls with some action controls: W - Move Forward S - Move Backward A - Move Left D - Move Right Left Mouse Button - used to 'mine' stuff, attack mobs with tools Right Mouse Button - places blocks, opens chests/crafting bench/forge I - opens your Inventory Left Shift Key - sneak, which allows you to not fall off ledges, however if you stride straight off far enough you'll fall anyways; also allows you to sneak around mobs so they might not notice you Numbers 1 to 9/ - select various items assigned at your disposal, details Scroll Wheel about this will be covered later Move your mouse - look around F3 Key - Look at your frame rate (FPS) and your current co-ordinates in your world; not as important F Key - toggle fog level, which can help with game lag ESC Key - auto-saves your world, allows access to the options menu There are four difficulty levels in Minecraft: Peaceful, Easy, Normal, and Hard. Peaceful does not spawn any mobs at night, aside from ones that won't hurt you (pigs, cows, chickens, sheep). People generally don't like this option because it removes the challenge, but use it if you want. I only use it if I'm building something large and don't want to be interrupted, otherwise I just leave it on Normal. The other three levels - Easy, Normal, and Hard - are different in that they spawn a larger number of harmful mobs, and that these mobs are harder to kill and they do more damage to you as the difficulty goes up. If you die in game (you lose all your hearts), you'll be sent back to where you spawned when you started the game. You lose all your items in your inventory (none in your chests though). The items are where you died, and you have 5 minutes to go get them again. After that, they're gone. You can receive damage in game from mobs (harmful ones), or from falling from heights, where the damage received is proportional to how far you fell. If you fall from 4 blocks up (the threshold of fall damage), you barely get any damage, and that's with no armor. If you fall from, say 30 blocks up, you'll get a ton of damage, armor or not. High enough and you die, regardless of armor. Needless to say, put your most important and hard-to-replace items in chests, where they'll be safe if you die. ______ _____________________ / \/ \ | 0002 | Minecraft Skills | \______/\_____________________/ There are many essential skills in Minecraft. They are outlined below. ______ ______________________ / \/ \ | 0003 | Mining/Collecting | \______/\______________________/ Mining and collecting are used interchangably, but I'm going to use 'mining' in this guide. Mining is the very essence of Minecraft, as you can probably tell by reading the name. You need to mine materials to build shelters, tools, weapons, and basically whatever you want. Mining by hand can only be used on wood, dirt, and sand, as mining by hand with any other types of block won't yield anything, the block will simply vanish and you get nothing from it. You need various tools in order to mine many things. You'll need a pickaxe to mine stone and minerals (coal, iron, etc.). You can use an axe for gathering wood, although it's not necessary. It makes the process a hell of a lot faster though. Shovels are used for dirt. Again not necessary, but using a shovel on dirt mines it really fast. You need a hoe to till dirt and plant seeds. Seeds aren't all that common, but if you get some you can plant them with a hoe. Things you build are stronger if you make them with a better material. For example, a stone pickaxe will break much faster than a diamond one. The only exception is gold. Don't use it to make tools, it sucks. Use it for certain items. Tools degrade over time, and eventually break. You'll need to make new tools all the time, which is why it's good to take a bunch with you on mining expeditions so you don't have to run back and forth for new tools all the time. ______ ______________________ / \/ \ | 003a | Minecarts | \______/\______________________/ Minecarts are a great mode of transportation, both in your mine and overland. They are placed on and operate on minecart tracks. There is a relevant section on tracks below. You can make three varieties of minecarts: a normal minecart, a powered minecart, and a storage minecart. A normal minecart is just, well, your normal run-of-the-mill Minecraft minecart. It lets you ride around in it along your network of tracks. They don't have much use outside of that. Below is the recipe: ############################### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # Ironbar # # Ironbar # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # Ironbar # Ironbar # Ironbar # # # # # # # # # ############################### Powered minecarts are minecarts that push other minecarts. They consist of a normal minecart with a forge in it. You feed coal into the forge on it to get it to move. This is done by holding coal in your hand in-game and right-clicking on the powered minecart. Below is the recipe for a powered minecart: ############################### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Forge # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Minecart# # # # # # # # # # ############################### The last type of minecart is the storage minecart. As it's name implies, it stores your items inside it. It's really just a mobile chest. You put items in it in the same way you put items in a normal, stationary chest. Below is the recipe for the storage minecart: ############################### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Chest # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Minecart# # # # # # # # # # ############################### ______ ____________________ / \/ \ | 003b | Minecart Tracks | \______/\____________________/ Minecart tracks are exactly what they sound like. You lay them down, and you place upon them any of the minecarts mentioned above. They can go up or down the sides of blocks in ramps in slopes ranging from very gradual to almost vertical, breakneck, suicide slope steepness. They are placed by right-clicking on the ground where you want to place them. They will automatically make corners when a piece is laid between two other pieces that are at a 90 degree angle. Note that minecarts collide on tracks, but you likely knew that already, or you could've figured it out for yourself. Below is the recipe for minecart tracks: MAKES 16 TRACK PIECES ############################### # # # # # Ironbar # # Ironbar # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # Ironbar # Stick # Ironbar # # # # # ############################### # # # # # Ironbar # # Ironbar # # # # # # # # # ############################### There also used to be a minecart glitch, and I'm not sure if Notch fixed it in an update. It used to involve making a square of track around one block, and placing minecarts on it until they perpetually hit each other and went around the track really fast without slowing down. You'd then put a track next to one edge, and a minecart placed on this track got hit by the others and was launched along it's own track really fast, and didn't slow much on even the steepest hills. ______ ____________________ / \/ \ | 0004 | Crafting | \______/\____________________/ If mining is the essence of Minecraft, crafting is the lifeblood. Without the ability to craft tools and weapons, you'll just be a sitting duck for mobs and you won't be able to do anything. Crafting is when you use a workbench to make stuff. Most of the time, the positions you put the materials in resembles the tool you'll make. In your inventory screen, the crafting spot is the 2x2 square spot to the right of the the picture of your character. On a workbench, you have a 3x3 space to use. Below is a rough outline of what I mean: ############################### ##################### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### ##################### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### ##################### # # # # # # # # The Inventory Screen # # # # Layout # # # # ############################### The Workench Layout Now here are some examples of objects. Note that you can sub in other materials in place of the wood I have here. So you can sub out wood for stone, iron, or diamond. You can sub in gold also, but it's terrible as a building material so... don't. Oh, and as a side note, when I say "wood", I mean the planks, not the tree trunks. So keep that in mind. And when I say "produces 4 from one". I mean that one building material produces 4 of whatever you're crafting. Only works for some things though. PICKAXE ############################### # # # # # Wood # Wood # wood # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Stick # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Stick # # # # # # # # # # ############################### WOOD PLANKS (PRODUCES 4 FROM ONE) ############################### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Tree # # # # Trunk # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### STICKS (PRODUCES 4 FROM ONE) ############################### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Wood # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Wood # # # # # # # # # # ############################### TORCH (PRODUCES 4 FROM ONE) ############################### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Coal # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Stick # # # # # # # # # # ############################### SHOVEL ############################### # # # # # # Wood # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Stick # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Stick # # # # # # # # # # ############################### WORKBENCH ############################### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Wood # Wood # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Wood # Wood # # # # # # # # # ############################### FORGE ############################### # # # # # CS # CS # CS # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # CS # # CS # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # CS # CS # CS # # # # # # # # # ############################### NOTE: CS means Cobblestone, which you get from mining regular stone. The beginner's pickaxe will always be wood, since that is the first thing you're likely to gather. But wood pickaxes break REALLY quickly (it makes me wonder how a wooden pickaxe works at all...) and you'll need something better. The first thing the beginner should mine is plain stone. This gives you cobblestone, which can replace wood in your pickaxe recipe. It lasts MUCH longer than wood, and it's abundant. It'll be your material of choice until you stumble across some iron. Below is the specific recipe for a stone pickaxe: ############################### # # # # # CS # CS # CS # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Stick # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Stick # # # # # # # # # # ############################### The beginner player should go for stone pickaxes as quickly as possible. Here is a good rule of thumb: make 2-4 wooden pickaxes (depending on how much wood you have), and use them all on stone and coal until all break. Then, make as many stone pickaxes as you can, mine more stone, and make more pickaxes. You may even come across a cavern in your exploits. Caverns are basically open caves underground, many have walls lined with all sorts of good things. Use caverns for your primary mines, since they save a lot of digging and have plenty of room to move around. The Workbench and your Forge are kind of the same. You "smelt" stuff in the forge in the same manner that you craft stuff in the workbench. The forge has it's own unique crafting interface. You have a box, which is above some wavy lines, which in turn are above another box. The top box is for what you're smelting. So if you put iron ore up there (the stone with brownish stuff), you come out with iron bars, which are used to make stuff that needs iron. The bottom box is for the fuel to burn. You can use either wood planks or coal. Wood burns up really fast (I can only get 2-3 iron bars out of one wood), but coal burns up slowly (8-9 iron bars from one coal). Since coal isn't that hard to find, use it if you have a surplus. Wood is okay in a pinch, such as if it's nighttime and you're not on peaceful. The list of smeltable items are as follows: Iron Cobblestone Sand Tree Trunk I might be missing a few, but I'll add them in later if needed. You can smelt cobblestone to make regular stone (from which you get cobblestone normally), but it seems like a waste to me. It's up to you if you want to use it though. Smelting sand gives you glass. Glass is used for windows. Kind of obvious, but you can do some neat stuff with glass. Note that torches can't be placed on glass. New in v1.2, you can now 'smelt' wood to get Charcoal. It works the same as coal, in that you can use it to make torches. You gather tree wood, but do not turn it into wood planks. Instead, you leave it in tree form, and put it in the top square in the forge. Then 'smelt', and you have a coal replacement. This is great in that you don't have to hope for nearby coal on the first night, you can get 8 cobblestones and build a forge, smelt wood, and use charcoal instead. Note that the wood 'smelted' is tree trunk. SLABS Below is the recipe for a Slab, the new half-block. Note that you can sub in cobblestone or sandstone for the stone in the below recipe. Also, the stone below is the regular stone that you mine to get cobblestone, and that you get when you smelt said cobblestone. ############################### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # Stone # Stone # Stone # # # # # # # # # ############################### ______ __________________________ / \/ \ | 004a | Dyeing Wool | \______/\__________________________/ I decided that this section needed to be on it's own. This was a huge and very much wanted addition to Minecraft Beta. The online Classic version had all the wool colours, and people really enjoyed using them. To get dyes, you need to collect them (obviously). There are a variety of sources, and a variety of colours. Here is a list of colours you can find from different places: Black - killing a Squid and getting it's ink sack (new mob in v1.2) White - killing a Skeleton, collecting the bone(s) it drops, and making Bonemeal (one bone in one crafting square) Blue - Lapis Lazuli ore (new mineable stuff in v1.2, VERY, VERY RARE) Red - red flowers Yellow - yellow flowers Green - cactuses (BE CAREFUL collecting cactuses. They hurt to touch.) You have to smelt cacti you collect in order to obtain dye from them. Also there are certain dyes that can only be obtained by combining colours: Orange - red and yellow dyes Lime - bonemeal and cactus dyes Light blue - bonemeal and lapis lazuli Cyan - lapis lazuli and cactus dyes Pink - red dye and bonemeal Purple - lapis lazuli and red dye Magenta - pink and purple dyes Gray - ONE bonemeal and ONE ink sack Light Gray - TWO bonemeals and ONE ink sack (arranged in a row) Then you just combine one dye colour with one wool block from a sheep to get one coloured block. Apparently, you can dye a sheep and harvest the coloured wool from them. This is a better method, since one dye can produce up to three coloured wool blocks. I haven't tested this method myself, so if it works, email me and I'll put it in as confirmed. ______ __________________________ / \/ \ | 0005 | Exploring + Gathering | \______/\__________________________/ Exploring in Minecraft is easy. You walk around with the W A S D keys. But there are some things you need to know to survive. One is that lava will kill you. Yep, just like real lava. You can't swim in lava. You can only flail about until death, or if you're near the shore you can try to jump for it. Lava is needed for making obsidian, which I will discuss sometime in the future, as it's an interesting block. You can make a sea of lava around your house, but remember to make a path over it. Another thing you need to know is how to swim in water. Gravity affects you in water. If you go into the water, it's just like walking on land, with the exception that you'd be drowning the whole time if you did this. To swim in water, you need to hold down the spacebar to stay afloat. If you go under the water, you'll notice bubbles in a row above your health hearts. These will pop over time, and when the last one pops, you drown. So be careful. Jumping from high up damages you. You'll see this in more detail in the Minecraft Basics section. You must jump to go up to blocks above you. You always jump one block high. Gathering is essentially mining. You use a tool to gather blocks. Simple enough. I'll put more in here later. Now for Sneaking. I'm putting in an article that a reader named Narfnin wrote for me, and he gets full credit and my gratitude. **ARTICLE BY NARFNIN** Sneaking By holding shift, you can "sneak," which makes your screen go a bit lower and makes you slower. However, you can also sneak up on mobs to attack them. But the best part of sneaking, by far, is being able to walk over the edge of a block. As long as you hold shift, you will stay crouched and can easily make bridges and tall walls without fear of falling to death. **END OF ARTICLE** I should mention that you Sneak by holding the Left Shift key while walking. ______ _____________ / \/ \ | 0006 | Building | \______/\_____________/ Building is not the same as crafting. Some people will use the two terms interchangably. I won't, for the purposes of this guide. What I define as building is the creation of structures. Like a house. A house is very essential in minecraft. It protects you from creepers and the like. You can make a house out of wood, which is probably what you'll do first. A wood house is suceptable to fire (from burning mobs, NOT TORCHES). You'll need what a real house needs: walls, lighting, a door, and a roof. Walls and the roof are pretty easy. You just scroll to the material you want, and right-click the blocks in place. Note that it's helpful to have a way onto the roof to assist in building. A door must be crafted. Below is how you do it: ############################### # # # # # # Wood # Wood # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Wood # Wood # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Wood # Wood # # # # # # # # # ############################### You place a door by pointing at the ground on the square that you want the door to sit on. A door is opened by facing it and left-clicking. Pretty simple stuff. You can also make iron doors. You just have to sub in iron bars/ingots for wood in the above recipe. An iron door is slightly different. It cannot be opened by clicking, you have to make a wall switch or "button" to open it. A wall switch is made using the below recipe: ############################### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Stone # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Stone # # # # # # # # # # ############################### Note that the stone above is NOT cobblestone, it's regular stone. You have to smelt cobblestone in a forge to get regular stone. These are placed on the wall near the door by right-clicking on a block. You then left-click on them and run like hell through the door, because a button's effect only lasts for one second. So you have to run for the door pretty quickly. Lighting is just using torches. They won't burn wood, so you're safe on that. You can build anything you want using those methods. I have a friend who made all the Megaman game characters in the free online version. They're pretty awesome looking I must say. He also made a castle in the beta, with a lava fountain. Yeah, a lava fountain. I have no idea how to make one of those, but it looks epic. You can use lightstone to light your way underwater. It and Jack-o-lanterns are the only light sources that work underwater. Torches get destroyed by water. Lightstone is obtained from the Nether as "lightstone dust". You need 9 of these dust piles to make ONE block. The recipe is then pretty self- explanatory: one lightstone dust in each of the nine squares. Since it usually is found hanging from the ceiling in the Nether over lava seas, it's very dangerous to go for. Jack-o-lanterns, on the other hand, are safe to make. You need a pumpkin, which itself looks like a jack-o-lantern besides the fact that is gives off no light. These can be found in random places around the map, and usually in bunches. You then use a torch to make one. Recipe is below: ############################### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Pumpkin # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Torch # # # # # # # # # # ############################### Yeah, somehow a jack-o-lantern, with it's holes for facial features, protects a torch from water. It's not very well thought out, but it's the best way to light underwater safely. ______ _____________ / \/ \ | 0007 | Misc | \______/\_____________/ This section will be for things that don't fit anywhere else. A lot of generic game tips will be put here. If you are on fire, pouring a bucket of water on the ground will put you out. Bonemeal instantly grows trees from saplings (dropped from trees when trunks are cut out), and also instantly grows crops to full maturity for harvesting. Boats: You can use boats to go on the water faster than swimming. A LOT faster. ############################### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # Wood # # Wood # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # Wood # Wood # Wood # # # # # # # # # ############################### Compasses: A compass points to your spawn point, which is likely near your shelter. I can't say enough to describe how useful this is. ############################### # # # # # # Ironbar # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # Ironbar # Redstone# Ironbar # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Ironbar # # # # # # # # # # ############################### Watches: Tell the time of day, in a little day/night cycle on the watch. Useful in mines to know if mobs will spawn while you're mining. ############################### # # # # # # Goldbar # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # Goldbar # Redstone# Goldbar # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Goldbar # # # # # # # # # # ############################### Gold Records: These are found in chests in a dungeon. Dungeons are going to get their own section soon. You know that you are near a dungeon when you hear a different background music than usual. You can find a mob spawner in here, which could spawn a mass of deadly mobs to attack you. Also you may find 0-2 chests, which can contain Gold Records to play in a Jukebox. These chests are also the only method to obtain saddles that allow you to ride pigs. You have to dig yourself out of a dungeon usually, and you can prevent the mob spawner from working if you line the dungeon with torches. Deadly mobs can't spawn in torchlight, so torches render the mob spawner useless. Note that you can't simply destroy the mob spawner. It's indestructable. ______ ______________________________ / \/ \ | 007a | Redstone Circuitry | \______/\______________________________/ Redstone is not just used for making compasses and watches. It's main use is circuitry. These circuits, powered by a redstone torch (recipe below) or a switch (recipes below also) allow you to set off various traps. The most common use outside of traps (but sometimes incorporated into traps) is to set off dynamite. Now, dynamite is made from sand and sulphur/gunpowder, which you get off of creepers that don't explode before you kill them. Remember the Redstone is the dust you use to make compasses, not the block you mine it from. REDSTONE TORCH ############################### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Redstone# # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Stick # # # # # # # # # # ############################### STEP SWITCHES ############################### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # Wood or # Wood or # Wood or # # Stone # Stone # Stone # # # # # ############################### Note that the stone above is NOT cobblestone, it is actual stone. You have to smelt cobblestone in a forge to get stone. Redstone is placed in a line by holding it and right-clicking on the ground somewhere. From here on, a "line" of redstone dust will be refered to as a "circuit". They are the same thing, in that a circuit is a line of redstone dust. When redstone circuits are used with redstone torches, they are activated as soon as the torch is placed at the end. A circuit is connected at the other end to whatever the trap is. It must go right up to the edge of one of the blocks that compose of the trap. So, for instance, if you're making a dynamite explosion trap, the redstone must go right up to one dynamite block. Here is a diagram of a simple redstone circuit: O--------------------------------------------### ^ ^ ^ ^ | Redstone circuit | Torch Dynamite The more common uses for traps that involve circuits are used with step switches. These are placed on the floor to open wooden doors, but are also used to activate redstone circuits. These must be placed at the end of a circuit like a redstone torch. The difference is that a torch immediately activates the circuit, whereas a switch activates it only when stepped on. The best use for these are when mobs step on them, activating a nearby trap. One great use for these step traps is employed in the v1.2 update. These use one straight hallway with a step switch at one end, the redstone circuit going the length of the hall, and a dispenser at the other end. Since a dispenser is powered by redstone, it is a great tool to use for mob traps. You just load it up with arrows, and it's basically an auto-fire bow. The arrows fly down the hall and hit the mobs at the other end to kill them. I will add stuff to this as time goes along. I am going to experiment with different traps and put down the ones that I think are the best. ______ ______________________________ / \/ \ | 0008 | Blocks: Purposes and Uses | \______/\______________________________/ I will organize these into sections for starters. In future updates, I will detail every block, and probably interchange some stuff. Building materials: Wood - used to craft workbenches, pickaxes, shovels, and hoes. Also used as fuel in forges, but doesn't last nearly as long as coal. Can be used to make stairs. Stone - you gain cobblestone from this. Can be made by smelting cobblestone, but honestly I don't see the point besides some recipes. Used to craft buttons and pressure plates. Cobblestone - used to craft better versions of pickaxes, shovels, and hoes. Can be used to craft swords for defence. Can be smelted to make regular stone. Used to make stone stairs. Can be used to create a forge and half-blocks. Dirt - used to grow seeds into wheat. Nothing besides that really... Glass - used for windows. Again, not much besides that. Crafting materials: Wood - used to craft workbenches, pickaxes, shovels, and hoes. Also used as fuel in forges, but doesn't last nearly as long as coal. Can be used to make stairs and doors. Tree trunk - Used to make wood planks (wood). You gain 4 wood for every 1 tree trunk. Stick - used to craft ladders, fences, signs, paintings, torches, levers, and as handles for tools (pickaxes, etc.). Used as the wood for a bow and the shafts of arrows. Used for fishing rods and minecart tracks. Coal - used to craft torches and as potent, longer-lasting fuel in forges. Stone - Used to make pressure plates and buttons. Cobblestone - used to craft all tools, plus swords and levers. Used to make half-blocks, or 'steps'. Can be used to craft stairs. Sand - smelted to make glass, and sandstone in the v1.2 update Iron - used to craft high quality tools, swords, and armour. Makes flint and steel when combined with flint. Crafts buckets, compass, minecart, minecart tracks, and doors. Diamond - used to craft the highest quality tools, swords, and armour Gold - used to craft watches. Can be used to make tools, swords, and armour, but the output is very low quality (does not last long at all). Wool + Dyes - used to make nice looking fabric. I don't know yet if painting recipes get affected by the colour of wool. Kind of useless, but nice to have: Flowers - used for some dyes (red and yellow) Mushrooms - used in making mushroom soup to restore health. Sorry that I don't have much right now, but I need to experiment a little more in order to make this section any good. ______ _____________ / \/ \ | 0009 | Mobs | \______/\_____________/ Mobs are the living creatures roaming around your minecraft world. They can be used for many materials. There are good mobs, and bad mobs. Note, and I'm not sure if this is true because it's just my observation: good mobs seem to spawn more in torchlight combined with daylight. It makes sense, as this is the opposite method from bad mobs (spawn more in more darkness). Good mobs are your everyday, run-of-the-mill animals that run around. The list: Pigs Pigs are used to acquire pork chops. You cook these to restore health. One cooked pork chop restores 4 hearts of health. Cows Cows used for leather to make low-grade armor, and for milk to make cake. To get the leather from a cow, you have to kill it. Then craft it into armour (recipes are in the appropriate section). To get milk, you need to be holding a bucket. Then you right click on the cow's blocky pink udder to get a bucket of milk (best to do this from behind and below). Chickens Chickens are used for feathers, to make arrows, and to get eggs. Eggs are used in the cake recipe, and if you throw them by holding them and right-clicking, there is a 25% chance that a chicken will spawn on impact. Sheep Sheep are used for wool, to make coloured wool blocks with dyes. And that's pretty much it. Squids Squids were implemented in the v1.2 update. Live in water with a minimum depth of two blocks. Kill for ink sacks, which give you black dye to dye wool with. These mobs won't harm you, unless they accidentally (or purposely?) push you off a cliff. Bad mobs are the ones that spawn at night in every difficulty besides peaceful. They're only objective and desire is to harm you as much as possible. The list: Creepers Kill for gunpowder, used to make dynamite. If they start hissing, run like hell because they'll blow up. If a skeleton hits a creeper with an arrow and kills it (MUST be the death blow), then it will drop a record to be used with the record player, 100% of the time. Spiders Spiders are to be killed for string, used to make bows. In the v1.2 update, they can climb walls. They can also serve as "horses" for Spider Jockeys (see below). They jump at you to attack, and they're quick. They have a 3 block jump radius. Also, I've been informed that spiders can climb ANY wall. I had been told that they couldn't climb sand. So you have to be more careful now. Zombies Zombies are just as annoying as hell, and have no use except for target practice. Skeletons Skeletons shoot arrows at you to attack They're hard as hell to kill without being shot yourself. It's recommended you use your own arrows to kill them. If they kill a Creeper with an arrow, the Creeper will drop a Record for the Music Box/Jukebox 100% of the time. Spider Jockeys These are skeletons on spiders. They must be killed separately. I'm now sure that a spider can jump as high or climb walls in this way. If you kill the spider first, then it's just a skeleton, and vice versa. The skeleton will shoot arrows while jockeying a spider, and the spider will jump at you. Yeah, it sucks when you have to fight them... but it's also kind of fun. Nether mobs are all bad, and they're only in the Nether. I'll explain what this is in a later section. The list: Zombie Pigmen (don't hurt you unless you threaten them i.e. attack them) Ghasts (ghosts that shoot fireballs, enough said... except that they are very massive for a mob, occupying a 4 block by 4 block by 4 block space. They have a lot of hit points because of this, but have more surface area to aim at, so it's kind of a balanced out situation). Ghasts cannot be killed by arrows, they will just go through them without any damaging effect to the Ghast. Also, you cannot jump on a Ghast and ride it, you will fall through it. Knowing the odds, it's fairly likely that falling through a Ghast would land you in a sea of lava. So don't do it. Slime Slimes are semi-transparent greenish cubes that come in four sizes: small (half a heart of health), normal (two hearts of health), big (eight hearts of health), and huge (sixteen hearts of health). Needless to say, the huge slime should be avoided if possible. Slimes are the only hostile mobs that can spawn during the day and in torchlight. Small slimes make a noise that sounds like when your player walks on stone, and normal, big, and huge slimes make a wet squishing noise. Killing a slime that is any size but small will break it into four smaller slimes. The small slimes can't attack you, they just push you around a bit with no damage. Big slimes do 2 hearts of damage, normal ones do one heart of damage, and I don't know what huge ones do. Slimes are quite rare, but their spawn rate increased in the Beta v1.3 update. They can drown in water and are unable to jump out. They will die in lava (so will most things) and they can climb ladders, despite having no apparent limbs to do such a thing. This enables them to follow players out of caves and mines to the surface, where light won't harm them. They only spawn in the bottom 16 layers of the map, so it's unlikely that you'll encounter one unless you have a really deep mine. Killing a small slime (only a small one) yields 0 to 2 slime balls, which for now have absolutely no purpose. All mobs can be killed with weapons, like a sword or bow and arrow. Bow and arrow is recommended as you can be a safe distance away, but they do less damage. Either way to combat stuff is fine, just pick your preference. ______ ______________________________ / \/ \ | 0010 | Surviving the First Night | \______/\______________________________/ Well, here we are. The part you all have been waiting for. The actual walkthrough in this walkthrough: how to survive the first night. You start off spawned somewhere random. I find that it's near the coast an awful lot. Anyways, the first priority is a workbench. Without one, you're screwed for defending yourself. Find yourself a tree, and bang away with your hand at the trunk. Take out the whole trunk of the tree. You'll probably end up with 3-6 trunk pieces. This is enough for now. Open your inventory (press 'I'). Place the trunk pieces on one of the crafting squares. You'll get wood planks. Now, take these and right-click ONCE in each square of your crafting squares. Take the workbench that appears. Now, DO NOT PLACE THE WORKBENCH ANYWHERE YET! Find yourself a cliff. They're everywhere. Use your hand to dig into the dirt parts (they're easier to get through) and make a room 1 square deep and three wide. I'll outline this below: ________________________________ | | | | | | |___________| |____________| Make the room three squares high, but make sure you don't dig up and out into the open. Now, place the workbench in one of the ends on the floor. Right-click on the workbench, and use the remaining wood to craft a couple of pickaxes. Now exit your cave, and REMEMBER WHERE IT IS. Now you need coal. Go find a cavern with a bunch of stone. A lot of the time, coal is just sitting there in the open. Mine as much as you can, and then stop. Don't dig through the rock for any more, it'll just waste time. Find some more trees, get some more trunks, make some more wood, and make sticks. You really only need 2, but it never hurts to have extra. Craft some torches (recipe is in an above section), and run back to your cave. By now, night is probably almost here. Get into you cave, and block off the entrance with the exception of one block (so you can see when it's daytime. Make the cave wider if you can, away from the workbench. This is so the skeletons can't get a firing angle on you. I'd say dig 3 more blocks wide (three high still). Now, line your cave with the torches. Mobs only spawn in dark spots, so the torchlight will block them from spawning in your cave. Don't forget that you can make charcoal if you're in a bind for coal and you can't find any. The recipe is below (in a forge): ############################### # # # # # # Tree # # # # Trunk # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Flames # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Tree # # # # Trunk # # # # # # ############################### Remember that flames isn't a block, it's what happens in a forge. Now, if you have time (ONLY if you have time) put torches around the entrance to your cave on the outside, to prevent mobs from spawning close by. Hide in the widened out part of the cave, not too far as to not see any outside, and wait. Night lasts about 7 minutes. You'll be fine though, don't worry. When morning comes, you can redo what I said above. Make the cave bigger, and craft a door. Mobs can't open doors, but keep in mind that skeletons can still shoot you through the window parts. Then you line the cave with more torches. Or, make some weapons, and go out and try to survive outside. It's a lot of fun, trust me. You can only make a sword for now though. Recipe is below: ############################### # # # # # # Wood # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Wood # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Stick # # # # # # # # # # ############################### If you have cobblestone, you can replace the wood here with it. It's more durable. ______ _________________ / \/ \ | 0011 | The Nether | \______/\_________________/ The Nether was included in a recent-ish update of Minecraft Alpha, and it's returned in the beta. Which is awesome. Seriously, the Nether is probably the coolest looking place you'll find in Minecraft. But how does one get to the Nether? Well it requires extreme luck and patience, or some ingenuity. Here's how it's done: you need to make a "portal" to the Nether out of Obsidian. Now, obsidian is a humongous pain to mine. Excessively rare in the field, you'd be lucky to find a deposit. It can only be mined with a diamond pickaxe, and it takes 15 seconds of holding down a mouse button PER BLOCK. Every other kind of pickaxe (stone, iron, etc.) take FIFTY seconds, and only give you cobblestone. You can also pour a bucket of water on a lava pool to turn it ALL into obsidian, but keep in mind that it'll only be the top layer, and many times a lava pool is a few blocks deep. And if you are too far away, the block will fall into the lava, never to be seen again. If you stand near the block though, this shouldn't be a problem. Hold down the left Shift key to prevent falling in yourself. Now you may be wondering to yourself, is this really worth it? Well, I have a solution to bypass all of the searching and mining. See, you can CREATE obsidian! All you need is a bucket. Recipe below: ############################### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # Ironbar # # Ironbar # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Ironbar # # # # # # # # # # ############################### NOTE: I know "iron" and "bar" are separate words, but to save space I combined them. Now, you need to find some lava. Yes, the stuff I said to stay away from at all costs. It is usually found deeper underground, but occasionally you may come across random pools on the ground outside. You walk CAREFULLY up to the edge of the lava, and right-click on a spot. Voila, you now have a harmless bucket of lava! Somehow it doesn't melt through the thin layer of ordinary iron containing it... Now, you need to dig a trough 4 squares long by 1 square wide, 1 square deep. You now pour the lava into the trough, and it'll spread along it. You then get some water in the same manner as lava, and pour it onto the SOURCE of the lava. What I mean by this is the square where you poured the lava in, from where the lava spread. BAM, you get obsidian. Purplish-black obsidian. Now, here's the tricky part: you'll need to pile up dirt forming a hollow column OVER THE ENDS of the obsidian strip, three squares high. Like so: TOP-DOWN VIEW, "D" MEANS DIRT ___ | D | ___|___|___ | D | | D | |___|___|___| | D | |___| Now you'll need to make a lava run, and pour the lava into the bottom of the column. Pour water on it. Do the same, IN THE SAME ORDER, for the next two squares up the column. Repeat this whole column process on the other end of the obsidian strip. Now the extra tricky part: you'll need to make a trough at the top with closed ends. To do this, start by putting dirt blocks next to the two top obsidian blocks on the inside of both columns. You should only need two. Now, put some dirt on the front and back of the tops of the columns, and connect the front two and the back two with more dirt. The two strips you just did should be 4 dirt blocks wide. Put a dirt block on the top of each column. Lastly, make a 4 dirt block wide strip on top of each of the 4-wide strips you just made. At this point, your trough will be finished. It should have two empty block spaces on the inside to put lava and water in. Now, get lava, pour it it, pour water on the source, and your finally done the construction of your portal! Remove all of the dirt around the obsidian. The end result should be an obsidian frame with an open area in the middle 3 squares high by 2 squares wide. The finishing step: you'll need a flint and steel. You can get flint from mining gravel, and the steel is just iron. The recipe for flint and steel is below: ############################### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # Ironbar # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Flint # # # # # # # # # # ############################### Now you click on a section of obsidian (on the bottom is likely easiest to access) on the inside rectangle of open space, and a purple haze fills the previously empty rectangle. This is how you get in and out. You step into the purple, and stand there. The view will go all wavy, and a screen will pop up saying "Entering the Nether". Now that you're in the Nether, time to explore. The orange blocks are called Netherrack. When lit with the flint and steel, they burn forever, unless water is dumped on them. You can mine this and use it in the overworld too. Explore a bit, but remember where your portal is. Cause if you lose your way, you need to make another portal inside the Nether to get out. Your entrance portal will always be there, rest assured. Don't dig down too much. The bedrock here is replaced by a sea of lava. It's every bit as lethal as lava aboveground. Ghasts are a mob down here. I'll go into more detail in a later update. They shoot fireballs. If the fireball hits your portal, it closes. You'll need to re-ignite it with flint and steel if this happens. There are plenty of things to do in the Nether, which will be explained in a later update as well. For now just explore, and remember where your portal is! Get some Netherrack and light it aboveground. Provides permanent lighting if it isn't doused. It'll light you on fire if you step on it while it's lit, so be cautious around lit Netherrack. Some things to remember about the Nether: Water apparently won't work for making Obsidian in the Nether. So have a stockpile in your inventory to make a portal out, or remember where your entrance portal is. Zombie Pigmen WILL NOT harm you unless you attack first. However, Ghasts are quite hostile no matter what. Lightstone falls in powder clumps. It takes nine lightstone dust clumps to make one solid block of lightstone. It is also rendered as stalactites, usually over lava. So be careful. Soul sand will slow down mobs too, but obviously not Ghasts as they just float over it. A Ghast's fireball hitting the purple stuff in your portal will remove the purple haze, rendering the portal useless until it is re-lit. You can use a flint and steel for this, or you can try to get a Ghast to hit the inside part of the obsidian with another fireball to relight it. Time does not pass in the Nether. For this reason, the watch won't show a day to night progression. A compass will also not work in the Nether. One step in the Nether equals 10 steps in the overworld. ______ __________ / \/ \ | 0012 | Items | \______/\__________/ This section is in it's ultra-preliminary phase. It'll consist of recipes to create usable items, but the list is severely limited right now. Just weapons, armour, and some other miscellaneous things. *Combat Section* This is a list of recipes to fight and survive against the mobs in game. You can replace the iron in these recipes with diamond, wood, or stone. In the case of armour, you can replace it with leather, but not stone. You get leather from attacking cows in-game. Don't do gold, ever. It has a low hit-point value, however it mines stuff faster than Diamond, so it's a trade-off to consider. SWORD ############################### # # # # # # Ironbar # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Ironbar # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Stick # # # # # # # # # # ############################### BOW AND ARROW BOW ############################### # # # # # String # Stick # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # String # # Stick # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # String # Stick # # # # # # # # # # ############################### ARROW ############################### # # # # # # Feather # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Stick # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Flint # # # # # # # # # # ############################### HELMET ############################### # # # # # Ironbar # Ironbar # Ironbar # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # Ironbar # # Ironbar # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### PANTS ############################### # # # # # Ironbar # Ironbar # Ironbar # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # Ironbar # # Ironbar # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # Ironbar # # Ironbar # # # # # # # # # ############################### BODY SUIT/SHIRT ############################### # # # # # Ironbar # # Ironbar # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # Ironbar # Ironbar # Ironbar # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # Ironbar # Ironbar # Ironbar # # # # # # # # # ############################### BOOTS ############################### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # Ironbar # # Ironbar # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # Ironbar # # Ironbar # # # # # # # # # ############################### *Food Section* Here's some recipes for food, which restores your health. You select the food and click when it's in hand to restore health depending on what you're eating. BOWL ############################### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # Wood # # Wood # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Wood # # # # # # # # # # ############################### MUSHROOM SOUP ############################### # # # # # # Brown # # # # Mushroom# # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Red # # # # Mushroom# # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Bowl # # # # # # # # # # ############################### COOKED PORK CHOPS NOTE: This is done in a forge. I'm just using the standard recipe layout for simplicity. You get pork from attacking pigs in-game. ############################### # # # # # # Pork # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # #(flames) # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # Coal # # # # # # # # # # ############################### CAKE Cake is the new food. One cake is good for 6 uses to restore health. Each "slice" restores one and a half hearts. ############################### # # # # # Milk # Milk # Milk # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # Sugar # Egg # Sugar # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # Wheat # Wheat # Wheat # # # # # # # # # ############################### Don't forget yoy get sugar from sugarcane (used to be reeds), eggs from chickens (you find them randomly in places), milk from cows, and you grow wheat in a crop from seeds. *HOUSEHOLD SECTION* This section houses various things for your house. Or anywhere really, but who would want a bed outside with zombies and creepers around? WOOD HALF-BLOCKS Essential for making beds. Remember that "wood" specifies the wood planks block, not the tree trunk block. ############################### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # Wood # Wood # Wood # # # # # # # # # ############################### BEDS The colour of the wool on the bed does not change it's colour. I know, it disappointed me too. It will always be a bed with white sheets and a deep red blanket on top. ############################### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # Wool # Wool # Wool # # # # # # # # # ############################### # # # # # Wood # Wood # Wood # #halfblock#halfblock#halfblock# # # # # ############################### ______ ___________________________ / \/ \ | 0013 | Mods and Texture Packs | \______/\___________________________/ There are tons of mods for Minecraft. Most have to do with changing the look of Minecraft blocks and items. They go in the texturepacks folder within your .minecraft folder (search for %appdata% on your computer, include the percent signs, it's in the Roaming folder). They are .zip files. Don't extract, just stick them in the folder as zip files. Here are some of my favourites: The Painterly Pack ( painterlypack.net ) This is the most popular site for Minecraft skin modding. Skin mods change how in-game stuff looks. You can download the default pack, or make your own custom one to download. It's got some really neat looking stuff to try out. The Runescape Pack I don't know where to get this. Just google it I guess. Anyways, it gives the game a Runescape look. It doesn't look the greatest, but for MMORPG nerds like me, it's a nice touch. INVedit This program allows you to modify your inventory by adding items, and how much of each item you hold. The max for one slot is 255, which is great considering you can only naturally accumulate 64 in one slot at a time. MCedit This java-based program allows you to modify your Minecraft world by adding in all manner of blocks. Currently, I'm not sure if you can do Netherrack, Lightstone, or Soul Sand (basically anything from the Nether) but it may have been updated to include these. There are plenty more mods out there, just search for them. Note that many will make the game lag more, but not too badly. You can create your own texture pack by modifying the 'terrain.png' file located in the Minecraft Java Executable thing. Do extract the data from this file, you must do the following: First, download the latest version of WinRAR, it's free. And the best part is, despite what is says, you don't have to pay after the '40 day trial' period is over. You just click 'Close' on the window that pops up upon opening, and it still lets you do stuff. Awesome, I know. Next, right click on the Minecraft Java program, select 'Extract to...' and browse to someplace where you want the files to go. The desktop is okay, just make a folder for all the files there first. You can find the Minecraft Java file by searching for '%appdata%' in Windows (including the percent signs). 'Roaming' will come up. Double click that, and find '.minecraft'. It's in the 'bin' folder. Now, with your extracted files, find 'terrain.png' and open it WITH A PROGRAM THAT CAN SUPPORT TRANSPARENCY. So no using Paint, cause it won't work. Use Photoshop if you have it and know how to use it. I use GIMP personally. It's a free Photoshop knockoff that comes with Linux operating systems (yes, I use Linux as well as Windows, it's great), but it can be downloaded for Windows. Now you just zoom in until the pixels in the image are larger (probably zoom to 800% to 1600%), select colours, and go nuts. Remember that the dark purple lines represent the boundaries of neighbouring blocks. If you go over them when editing one block, it edits the one next to it. So be wary of that. I don't yet know how you implement this new 'terrain.png' (remember to save it as that or the game won't recognize it) into your game, but once I figure it out I'll put it in here. ______ __________________________ / \/ \ | 0014 | Future Update Rumors | \______/\__________________________/ In this section, I'll be putting in some stuff that is rumored to come in future Minecraft updates. It will be organized according to what it will be (ex: mobs, items, etc.) and it's probability according to Notch. So without further ado: *MOBS* Wolves - Notch mentioned that he'd definitely put in wolves in the future. UPDATE: Notch and his crew are now working on wolves for their next update to Minecraft (Beta v1.4). They will be trainable when you find them in the wild, and they can attack mobs for you it seems. They need to be fed it looks like, but all for the bonding experience right? They even shake off water when they jump out of a lake. It's quite adorable actually. The url for the youtube video for wolves is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Lp9p5yjuo The video is done by one of Notch's programmers. It's a legit development video, don't worry. It's not some random Minecraft modder. Dragons - this is the top 'flying things' rumor. Notch said that he wants to put in some sort of flying transport in the game. Everyone seems to think that it's dragons. Water Monsters - the front runner is sharks. Notch mentioned water mobs that attack will be put in, but hasn't alluded to what exactly. Fish - Notch has confirmed these as a mob in the future. Not just a byproduct of fishing, but an actual mob. Pigmen - the living, overworld counterparts of Zombie Pigmen. Also confirmed by Notch. Whales - the first unsucessful attempt at these was in Beta v. 1.1_02. Notch has confirmed he will add these. Bats - Notch briefly mentioned these at some point, but nothing has come of it since. Giants - Yep. Giant Hulk-ish zombie mobs. Notch briefly tried these in the first ever Survival Minecraft. Hasn't confirmed them yet, but they're still in the code for the game. Boss Mobs - possibly Boss creatures for players to battle. Mimics - Notch said that Mimics may be a possibility in the future. NPC Villages - Notch briefly mentioned that a goblin NPC village may happen. *GAME DEVELOPMENT* Achievements - Notch is trying to implement an achievements system for the game Stat Tracker - Notch has alluded that he would attempt to put in a stat tracker system that players can access Change Spawn Point - Notch has said the next update (Minecraft v1.4) would give players the ability to change their spawn points ______ _____________ / \/ \ | 0015 | FAQ | \______/\_____________/ Q: How do I craft ________ ? A: I will make a section on crafting stuff. You can find recipes on the Minecraft Wiki (google it). UPDATE: I have some stuff in the crafting section. Basics only for now though. Q: Why do some blocks float? A: For some reason, gravity wasn't put in place for many blocks. I don't know why, but we'll have to accept it. Floating castles are awesome anyways. Q: I just got crushed by gravel/sand! Why? A: Gravel and sand are the only gravity-obeying solid blocks. If you get crushed by them falling on you, you die. It sucks, but it's a fact of Minecraft. Q: When is the new update coming out? A: You can find out on Notch's blog. It's at notch.tumblr.com. He posts stuff there about updates and future developments. Q: What are those skeletons on spiders? You never mentioned them! A: Oh yeah. Those are called Spider Jockeys. I'll add them in (I have it in now for version 0.5 of this guide). They are combined spiders and skeletons. Take a look at the 'Mobs' section for details. ______ _______________ / \/ \ | 0016 | Credits | \______/\_______________/ I can't claim sole responsibility for this guide. I had a lot of help. And I'm always getting emails on what to include or correct in my guide, which help a great deal. My guide needs to be the best Minecraft guide, and readers sending emails are the best way to make that happen. I appreciate it a ton. So, without futher ado, I credit the following for whatever they did: Notch - for making this epic game The Minecraft Wiki (http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki) - Without them, I would never have known how to craft most things. Also, they have a flood of info on everything Minecraft. My friends - for helping me when I first started playing the game You - for reading this long and arduous guide Yakkity Yak - for their email reminding me about messing up the pickaxe recipe and to suggest I help beginners more with upgrading their picks hop hip - for telling me some useful recipes to put in, which finally got me to start on the items section Lil' Tony - for telling me about Creepers dropping green records (yes, green ONLY) 100% of the time when killed by a skeleton's arrow Also told me about Gold Records, and pointed out that I needed to ammend the size of Ghasts. Also he told me some things about Ghasts that I find are VERY helpful. Told me about dungeon music, which is different than normal background music. Timothy Simenc - my biggest help besides the Wiki, he told me that: jockeys CAN climb, spiders can climb up sand, gold mines stuff faster than diamond, the obsidian trick for making a sheet of obsidian (see "The Nether" for this), and that items are around for only 5 minutes after you die (not 15) Ian Gordon - also a tremendous help. He gave me a list of sorts for things that new people should know, among other things. The list: the cake recipe, the Nether steps to overworld steps ratio, redstone circuitry (it's getting it's own section, there's a lot), stuff about minecarts, underwater lighting, iron door recipe and use, and stuff on bonemeal Narfnin - informed me that I messed up on how to obtain green dye (he didn't word it like that, but I came to that realization), and that I didn't put in anything about Sneaking. He was awesome enough to write a mini-article about Sneaking, which I have put in, word-for- word, and I have credited him right underneath his article. He also told me stuff about dyeing sheep. ______ __________________ / \/ \ | 0017 | Legal Stuff | \______/\__________________/ This guide is copyright 2011 by me, Chris Parbery. Any unauthorized republishing of this guide will be subject to legal penalty. This guide may not be copied, in part or in it's entirety, without my consent. You may only copy it for personal use. You must not sell it for profit. Hey, I donated my time to write it up, without any intention of making money from it, so you can't make money with it either. I WILL ban anybody who violates these restrictions from accessing it ever again. 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