Minecraft for dummies
Book - 2013
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- Published
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Hoboken, N.J. :
John Wiley & Sons
2013.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- Portable edition
- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- xii, 148 pages : illustrations ; 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