Tutorials
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.
Newcomer survival
- Beginner's guide
- Best biomes to use
- Hunger management
- Things to do
- Things not to do
- Simple tips and tricks
- Survival mode progression
Shelters
General
Getting to know the game better. These are for when the player is comfortably established.
- Achievement guide
- Advancement guide
- Adventuring
- Best enchantments guide
- Breaking a fall
- Chunk loader
- Combat
- Complete main adventure
- Creating a village
- Dual wielding
- Exploring caves
- Getting food quickly
- Getting max gear
- Hitboxes
- Horses
- Mapping
- Measuring distance
- Minecraft in education
- Mining
- Nether hub
- Nether portals
- Organization
- Pillar jumping
- Phantom-proofing
- Spawn-proofing
- Things to do when bored
- Time-saving tips
- Transportation methods
- Units of measure
- Village mechanics
- Zombie siege defense
Enchanting and smelting
These tutorials provide information on how the furnaces and the enchantment system work.
Non-standard survival
Tutorials that involve a non-standard environment.
- Desert survival
- End survival
- Gathering resources on peaceful difficulty
- Managing slimes in superflat mode
- Nether survival
- The Void
- Thunderstorm survival
Advanced
Tutorials that require using exploits or commands.
Challenges
Acquiring a conduit
Archaeology
Curing a zombie villager
Conquering a mountain
Defeating a bastion remnant
Defeating an End city
Defeating a monster room
Defeating an ocean monument
Defeating a Nether fortress
Defeating a pillager outpost
Defeating a stronghold
Defeating temples
Defeating trial chambers
Defeating a woodland mansion
Defeating a village raid
Defeating the ender dragon
Defeating the wither
Exploring an ancient city
Locating a stronghold
Obtaining every music disc
Obtaining every block
Non-standard survival
Adventure survival
Custom mapsHalf hearted hardcore
Hardcore mode
Surviving in a single area indefinitely
Infinite desert survival
Island survival
Manhunt
Mob switch
Nomadic experience
Trapping every mob
Skyblock survival
Skywars survival
Speedrunning
Starting in the Nether
Starting in the End
Superflat survival (Java Edition)
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Ultra hardcore survival
The World Starts With One
Getting to the world border
Village only survival
Challenge maps
Construction
- Adding beauty to constructions
- Airlock
- Architectural terms
- Building a cruise ship
- Building a metropolis
- Building a rollercoaster
- Building micro shelters
- Building safe homes
- Building water features
- Chunk ban
- Color palette
- Creating shapes
- Defense
- Elevators
- Endless circling pool
- Furniture
- Glazed terracotta patterns
- Hiking trail
- Lag machine
- Making nice floors
- Pixel art
- Ranches
- Roof types
- Secret door
- Settlement guide
- Underwater home
- Walls and buttresses
- Water gate
- Water-powered boat transportation
Block breaking
These tutorials provide information on how to break blocks automatically, usually by an explosion.
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
Cat gift
Chorus Fruit
Clay and Mud
Cobblestone
Cocoa Beans
Copper


Crops
Dirt
Dragon's Breath
Dripstone
Egg
Enchanted Golden Apple
Experience
Fern
Fish
Flower
Froglight
Ghast Tear
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
Weeping and Twisting Vines
Nether Wart
Obsidian
Ominous Bottle
Powder Snow
Pumpkin and Melon
Rooted Dirt
Sculk
Scute
Seagrass
Sea Pickle
Snow
Soul Soil
Sugar Cane
Sweet Berries
Tree
Trident
Vines
Villager trading hall
Wither Rose
Wool- Block and item duplication
Mobs
- Mob farming
- Mob grinding
Monster spawner traps
Allay
Animals
Axolotl
Bee
Blaze
Breeze
Cat
Cave spider
Chicken
Creeper
Drowned
Ender dragon
Enderman
Frog
Ghast
Glow squid
Goat
Guardian
Hoglin
Iron golem
Magma cube
Phantom
Piglin bartering
Pillager
Raid
Shulker
Slime
Squid
Turtle
Villager
Wandering trader
Warden
Witch
Wither
Wither skeleton
Zombie/Drowned
Zombie villager
Zombified piglin
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.
Various devices
- 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.
Traps
Pistons
Tripwire
Advanced redstone
- Advanced redstone circuits
- Arithmetic logic
- Calculator
- Command stats
- Hourly clock
- Morse code
- Printing
- Redstone computers
- Redstone telegraph
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
- Player versus Player (PvP)
- Joining a LAN world with alternate accounts
Server setup
- Setting up a Java Edition server
- Setting up a Bedrock Edition server
- Server maintenance
- Setting up a LAN world
- Server startup script
- Hamachi connection LAN
- Ramdisk enabled server
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
- Required Java versions
- Programs and editors
- Running the data generator
- Update Java to latest version
- See Minecraft's code
- Downgrading
- Creating Forge mods
Maps
Resource packs
Data packs
- Creating a data pack
- Installing 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
Game installation
- Installing a snapshot
- Installing Minecraft Preview and beta versions
- Obtaining a crash report
- Installing Forge mods
- Custom Minecraft directory
- Playing and saving Minecraft on a thumb drive
- Playing and saving Minecraft on a thumb drive with the old launcher
- 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
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. Furthermore, as of 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.
- 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.
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