Tutorials
The list below contains tutorials describing various factors of Minecraft.
Newcomers
These tutorials are designed to help newcomers to Minecraft get a basic grounding in the game.
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.
- Advancement guide
- Best enchantments guide
- Breaking a fall
- Combat
- Complete main adventure
- Creating a village
- Downgrading
- Dual wielding
- Desert survival
- End survival
- Exploring caves
- Game terms
- Gathering resources on peaceful difficulty
- Hiding chests
- Hitboxes
- Horses
- Light suppression
- Mapping
- Measuring distance
- Mining
- Multiplayer PvP bases
- Nether hub
- Nether portals
- Nether survival
- Organization
- Pillar jumping
- Player versus Player
- Phantom-proofing
- Spawn-proofing
- Summoning jockeys
- Things to do when bored
- Thunderstorm survival
- Time-saving tips
- Transportation methods
- Units of measure
- Village mechanics
- Zombie siege defense
Construction
- Adding beauty to constructions
- Airlock
- Architectural terms
- Building a metropolis
- Building micro shelters
- Building a rollercoaster
- Building safe homes
- Building water features
- Color palette
- Creating shapes
- Cruise ship
- Curved roofs
- Defense
- Desert shelter
- Elevators
- Endless circling pool
- Furniture
- Glazed terracotta patterns
- Hiking trail
- Making nice floors
- Pixel art
- Ranches
- Roof construction guidelines
- Roof decorations
- Roof types
- Secret door
- Settlement guide
- Underwater home
- Walls and buttresses
- Water gate
- Water-powered boat transportation
Challenges
Acquiring a conduit
Conquering a mountain
Defeating a stronghold
Defeating a bastion remnant
Defeating a monster room
Defeating a Nether fortress
Defeating a monument
Defeating an End city
Defeating a pillager outpost
Defeating a woodland mansion
Defeating a village raid
Defeating temples
Defeating the ender dragon
Defeating the wither
Exploring an ancient city
Obtaining every music disc
Non-standard survival
- Adventure survival
- Custom maps
- Flat survival (Bedrock and Java Edition)
- Half hearted hardcore
- Hardcore mode
- How to survive in a single area indefinitely
- Island survival
- Manhunt
- Mob switch
- Nomadic experience
- Speedrunning
- Skyblock
- Superflat survival (Java Edition)
- Survival in an infinite desert
- Survival with no enabled data packs
- Ultra hardcore 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
Amethyst
Armor
Azalea
Bamboo
Basalt
Bedrock
Blaze rod
Bone meal
Cactus
Chorus fruit
Clay and mud
Cobblestone
Cocoa bean
Copper
Crops
Dirt
Dragon's breath
Dripstone
Egg,
feather and chicken
Experience
Fern
Fish
Flower
Froglight
Glow berries
Glow ink sac
Glow lichen
Goat horn
Gold
Gunpowder
Hanging roots
Honey
Ice
Iron
Kelp
Lava
Meat
Moss block
Mushroom
Music disc
Nautilus shell
Nether growth
Nether vine
Nether wart
Obsidian
Powder snow
Pumpkin and melon
Rooted dirt
Sculk
Scute
Seagrass
Sea pickle
Snow
Soul soil
Sugar cane
Sweet berries
Tree
Trident
Vine
Villager trading hall
Wither rose
Wool
- Duplication
Mobs
- Mob farming
- Mob grinding
Monster spawner traps
Allay
Animals
Axolotl
Bee
Blaze
Cat
Cave spider
Chicken
Creeper
Drowned
Ender dragon
Enderman
Frog
Glow squid
Goat
Guardian
Hoglin
Iron golem
Magma cube
Phantom
Piglin bartering
Raid
Shulker
Slime
Squid
Turtle
Villager
Wandering trader
Warden
Witch
Wither
Wither skeleton
Wolf
Zombie
Zombie villager
Zombified piglin
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.
Block breaking
These tutorials provide information on how to break blocks automatically, usually by an explosion.
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.
- 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
- Hopper: Hoppers are key for item handling and sorting.
- Item sorting: Sorts items.
- Mechanisms: Lists an assortment of complete devices using redstone.
- Minecarts: Large railway systems can benefit from redstone at the terminals.
- Redstone music: Creating music with Note Blocks and redstone circuits.
- Rube Goldberg machine: Complexity and spectacle!
- Storage minecarts: Loading and unloading chests and hopper minecarts.
Traps
Redstone (advanced)
Servers
These tutorials provide information on how servers work and how to set one up.
- 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
- Hosting providers
Technical
These tutorials provide information on technical matters, such as mods and snapshots.
- Command blocks and functions
- Command NBT tags
- How to install a snapshot
- Creating a data pack
- Installing a data pack
- Custom world generation
- Custom structures
- How to get a crash report
- See Minecraft's code
- Installing Forge mods
- Loading a resource pack
- Creating a resource pack
- Map downloads
- Custom maps
- Joining a LAN world with alternate accounts
- Custom Minecraft directory
- Sound directory
- Recover corrupted saved world data
- Saving your game data to the cloud with Dropbox
- Save game data to Dropbox (world data only)
- Playing and saving Minecraft on a thumb drive
- Run Minecraft through Google Drive
- Improving frame rate
- Update Java to latest version
- Updating old terrain
- Falling blocks
- Minecraft on Chrome OS
- Moving structures using structure blocks from world to world
- Playing with a controller
Creating Minecraft media
Bedrock Edition only
Other
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 (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.
- Obtaining discontinued features - Information on how to obtain features that could only be collected in older versions but can be updated into future versions.
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