Minecraft basics
Book - 2022
Want to creep into the biggest video game of all time? Grab your pickaxe and let's go! Minecraft Basics For Dummies helps you (or your kids) get started and join the infinite online world that keeps millions of players of all ages engaged every day. Inside this portable-trim book, crafters will get all the tips and tricks needed to get started--on their own or with multiple players--in each of the three gameplay modes.
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
[2022]
- Language
- English
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- Physical Description
- x, 212 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes index.
- ISBN
- 9781119907480
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Part 1. Getting Started with Minecraft
- Chapter 1. Minecraft Is for Everyone - But What Is It?
- Playing Minecraft with the Children in Your Life
- Getting a handle on the basics
- Playing in Creative mode
- Winning the game
- Letting Minecraft Help You Teach
- Knowing Where to Get Started with Minecraft
- Keeping Your Kids Safe
- Knowing with whom your kids are playing
- Subscribing to Minecraft channels on YouTube
- Teaching Proper Minecraft Etiquette
- Preventing server crashes
- Recognizing that stealing is wrong
- Asking permission
- Chapter 2. Scratching the Surface of Minecraft
- Figuring Out Where to Play Minecraft: Console Round-Up
- Purchasing and Installing Minecraft
- Playing the Game
- Meeting the cast
- Sorting out the gamemodes
- The For Dummies guide to Minecraft slang
- Understanding basic controls
- The hostile and friendly mobs in the Overworld
- Discovering Tools
- Interacting with Various Blocks
- Chapter 3. Let's Go! Playing the Game and Surviving the First Night
- Viewing the World Around You
- Operating the Basic Minecraft Controls
- Watching the Heads-Up Display (HUD)
- Preparing for Your First Night
- Harvesting trees
- Building a crafting table and shelter
- Making sticks and wooden tools
- Completing Optional Day 1 Activities
- Building a full house
- Constructing a chest
- Mining cobblestone and coal
- Building a bed
- Surviving the Night
- Switching from Peaceful mode to Easy mode to Normal mode
- Surviving the first night: Three strategies to light the way
- Part 2. Getting a Handle on the Basic Skills
- Chapter 4. Surviving Hunger
- Keeping Hunger at Bay
- Finding food
- Chapter 5. Discovering Blocks and Items
- Starting in the Wooden Age
- The overwhelming need for wood
- There's a wood for that
- Pillaging and Plundering
- Knowing when to loot and when not to
- Where to go, what to find
- Surviving the Stone Age
- The cheap and plentiful
- Advancing to the Iron Age
- Making and mastering weapons
- Stringing the bow
- Strapping the shield
- Using Utility Blocks
- Smelting and cooking
- Jukebox and note block
- Stonecutter and loom
- Building an Effective House or Base
- Knowing Where to Store Items
- Chapter 6. Exploring Biomes
- Knowing What's What with Biomes
- Excavating Structures
- Part 3. Expanding Your Skills
- Chapter 7. Creating Farms in Your World
- Working with Crops and Animals
- Growing crops
- Knowing the basic plants
- Attracting animals
- Growing mushrooms
- Raising pets
- Setting Up Basic Farms
- Creating basic animal farms
- Growing basic plant farms
- Automating Farms
- Simplifying basic redstone blocks
- Building an automated plant farm
- Building an automated animal farm
- Chapter 8. Exploring the Minecraft Underground by Mining and Caving
- Exploring the Mines
- Biomes
- Underground structures
- Mining Efficiently
- Cave mining
- Digging into branch mining
- Stepping into staircase mining
- Buildinga quarry
- Ripping into strip mining
- Rushing into speed mining
- Staying Safe While Mining
- Chapter 9. Leading Your Village
- Trading in Villages
- Exploring villager professions
- Trading with emeralds
- Trading Your Way to Wealth
- Farming for farmers
- Farming sugarcane
- Killing zombies
- Shearing sheep
- Raiding and Illagers
- Locating illagers
- Raiding villages
- Chapter 10. Powering Up with Weapons and Potions
- Enchanting Weapons, Tools, and Armor
- Enchanting an item
- Benefiting from enchantments
- Repairing items on the anvil
- Brewing Potions
- Brewing basic potions
- Using potions
- Modifying potions
- Brewing negative potions
- Brewing splash potions
- Chapter 11. Advancing to the Nether, The End, and Beyond
- Reaching the Nether
- Making the nether portal
- Finding ruined portals
- Entering the Nether
- Exploring the nether structures
- Advancing in the Nether
- Grabbing resources before leaving the Nether
- Leaving the Nether
- Adventuring to The End
- Bringing along items to help find The End
- Locating the Stronghold
- Exploring the Stronghold
- The foreboding portal room
- Ending with The End
- Entering The End
- Fighting the ender dragon
- Entering The End via the exit portal
- Going Beyond the Ender Dragon
- Surviving the Afterglow of The End
- Building the Beacon
- Chapter 12. Expanding Your Minecraft Experience
- Starting and Joining a Private Multsplayer World
- Bedrock Edition
- Java Edition
- Creating a Realms world
- Joining Public Servers
- Bedrock Edition
- Java Edition
- "Cheating" for Minecraft
- Using commands that any players can use
- Using gamerules to your advantage
- Checking Out External Sites and Resources
- Watching Minecraft media
- Listening to Minecraft music
- Part 4. The Part of Tens
- Chapter 13. Ten Things Adults Should Try in Minecraft (Adults Only!)
- Grasp the Basics of the Game
- Play with Your Children
- Know Who Your Children Play With
- Stay Safe in Minecraft
- Use Minecraft as a Teaching Tool
- Divorced with Kids? Coparent Better by Using Minecraft
- Learn about Minecraft
- See Minecraft as More than a Game
- Host a Server
- Teach a Class
- Chapter 14. Ten Helpful Survival Tips
- Dig Safely
- Cook Efficiently
- Obtain Obsidian and Build Portals Quickly
- Mine in the Right Location
- Avoid Overexertion
- Defeat Basic Mobs
- Obtain Experience Points
- Craft Quickly
- Check Basic Equipment
- Find Natural Comfort
- Glossary
- Index
