Minecraft for dummies

Jacob Cordeiro

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Subjects
Published
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons 2013.
Language
English
Main Author
Jacob Cordeiro (-)
Edition
Portable ed
Item Description
Includes index.
Physical Description
xii, 148 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
ISBN
9781118537145
  • Introduction
  • About This Book
  • Foolish Assumptions
  • Icons Used in This Book
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Bonus Content at Dummies.com
  • Where to Go from Here
  • Chapter 1. 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)
  • Chapter 2. 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
  • Chapter 3. 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
  • Chapter 4. Discovering Blocks and Implementing Items
  • The Wooden Age
  • The Looting Age
  • The Stone Age
  • Using the Furnace
  • Chapter 5. 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
  • Chapter 6. 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
  • Chapter 7. Understanding the Natural World
  • Sightseeing in the Biomes
  • Examining Different Types of Mobs
  • Docile mobs
  • Hostile mobs
  • Neutral and allied mobs
  • Chapter 8. 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
  • Chapter 9. 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
  • Chapter 10. 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
  • Chapter 11. 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
  • Index