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Minecraft for dummies, by Jacob Cordeiro

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Minecraft for dummies

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by Jacob Cordeiro

For dummies

Craft yourself an amazing game of Minecraft! More than just a game, Minecraft consists of players using an avatar to create or destroy various types of blocks, form fantastic structures, create artwork, and do much more, all in a three-dimensional environment and across various multiplayer servers in multiple game modes

Entering Minecraft -- Registering a Minecraft Account -- Purchasing and Installing Minecraft -- Playing the Game -- Logging in and operating the main menu -- Starting your first game in SinglePlayer mode -- Understanding basic controls -- Watching the Heads-Up Display (HUD) -- Planning for Your First Night -- Devising a Game Plan -- Using Your Inventory -- Manipulating Your Inventory -- Setting Up for Your First Night -- Harvesting trees -- Building a crafting table, chest, and shelter -- Crafting table -- Chest -- Shelter and door -- Completing Optional Day One Activities -- Sticks and wooden tools -- Cobblestone and coal -- Bed -- Preparing to Survive -- Overcoming Long-Term Obstacles -- Understanding and Avoiding Hunger -- Acquiring food -- Eating food -- Building, Mining, and Farming -- Building an effective house -- Starting on a mine or an excavation -- Starting a farm -- Advancing Toward the End -- Obtaining better ores -- Reaching the Nether -- Building a portal -- Surviving the Nether -- Finding the Stronghold -- Conquering the End -- Staying busy in the afterglow -- Discovering Blocks and Implementing Items -- The Wooden Age -- The Looting Age -- The Stone Age -- Using the Furnace -- Mastering Mines and Farms -- Mining Efficiently -- Cave mining -- Cave mining tips -- Ravines and canyons -- Branch mining -- Staircase mining -- Quarry mining -- Building the Perfect Farm -- Crops -- Wheat, carrots, and potatoes -- Melons and pumpkins -- Basic plants -- Sugar cane -- Cacti -- Cocoa beans -- Nether wart -- Trees -- Animals -- Mushrooms -- Surviving through Invention -- Building Masterpieces -- Engineering with Redstone -- Transmitting power with redstone wire -- Using other redstone mechanisms -- Redstone torch -- Redstone repeater -- Applying redstone circuits -- Advanced redstone circuitry -- The NOT gate -- The OR gate -- The AND gate -- The XOR gate -- Multicircuitous designs -- Enchanting Weapons, Tools, and Armor -- Enchanting an item -- Powering, up -- Using enchantments -- Brewing Potions -- Brewing basic potions -- Using potions -- Modifying potions -- Brewing negative potions -- Brewing splash potions -- Creatively Improving Your World -- Playing in Creative Mode -- Understanding the Natural World -- Sightseeing in the Biomes -- Examining Different Types of Mobs -- Docile mobs -- Hostile mobs -- Neutral and allied mobs -- Understanding the Man-Made World -- Trading in Villages -- Exploring village features -- Trading with emeralds -- Surviving zombie sieges -- Defending a village -- Restoring a village -- Building a village -- Excavating Structures -- Desert temple -- Jungle temple -- Dungeon -- Witch hut -- Abandoned mine shaft -- Stronghold -- Nether fortress -- Playing with MultiPlayer and Cheats -- Starting or Joining a Multiplayer World -- LAN server -- Starting your LAN server -- Joining another LAN server -- Public server -- Joining a public server -- Creating your own public server -- Using the Chat Menu -- Commands that can be used by all players -- Operator-only commands -- Operator-only, public-server-only commands -- Nonspecific parameters -- Customizing Your Experience -- Surviving Hardcore Mode -- Exploring Adventure Mode -- Implementing Additional World Options -- Customizing a superflat world -- Making your own options -- Managing the .minecraft Folder -- Using .minecraft -- Recovering .minecraft -- Checking Out External Sites and Resources -- Ten Helpful Survival Tips -- Digging Safely -- Cooking Efficiently -- Obtaining Obsidian and Portals Quickly -- Mining in the Right Location -- Avoiding Overexertion -- Defeating Basic Mobs -- Amassing Colored Wool -- Crafting Quickly -- Checking Basic Equipment -- Finding Natural Comfort