Table of Contents

Introduction to the Third Edition

What’s In This Book

How to Use This Book

Crafting Recipes

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Chapter 1 Getting Started

Registering and Downloading

Registering a Mojang Account

Purchasing Minecraft

Launching Minecraft

Starting a New Game

Choosing a World-Generation Style

Singleplayer Game Modes

Seeding Your World

About Snapshots

Controls

The Bottom Line

Chapter 2 First-Night Survival

Surviving and Thriving

Heading for the Trees

Using Your Inventory

Building a Crafting Table

Building Some Tools

Creating a Shelter

The Furnace Is Your Friend

Let There Be Light

Slumbering with Lumber

Tools and Their (Over)Use

A Bit About Achievements

What Is This “Bonus Chest” You Speak Of?

The Bottom Line

Chapter 3 Gathering Resources

Introducing the HUD

Improving Your Tools

Chests: Safely Stashing Your Stuff

Avoiding Monsters

Hunger Management

Your Mission: Food, Resources, and Reconnaissance

Getting Food on the Run

Finding a Building Site

Using the Creative Mode Inventory

The Bottom Line

Chapter 4 Mining

Dig Deep, My Friend

The Mining Layer Cake Guide

Lava Lakes and Other Pitfalls

Descending to Layer 11

The 2×1 Ladder Descent

The Straight Staircase

The Spiral Staircase

Layouts for Fast, Efficient Mining

Staying Safe While You Mine

The Bottom Line

Chapter 5 Combat School

Introducing the Menagerie

Zombies

Spiders

Skeletons

Cave Spiders

Spider Jockeys

Chicken Jockeys

Creepers

Slimes

Endermen

Zombie Pigmen

Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog

Guardians and Elder Guardians

Defensive Mobs

Snow Golems

Iron Golems

The Dogs of War

Mob Target Practice

Weapons, Armor, and Shields

Swordcraft

Bows and Arrows

Shields

Armor-All

Color-Coordinating Your Leather

Taking Combat Damage and Healing

The Bottom Line

Chapter 6 Crop Farming

Choosing a Crop

Cooking with Minecraft

Minecraft Bakery

Minecraft BBQ

Alchemy Eatery

Raw Food Diet

Eat at Your Own Risk

Establishing a Farm

Automated Farms

Creating a Piston Harvester

Sticky Piston Harvesting

Creating a Water Harvester

Harvesting Other Crops

The Bottom Line

Chapter 7 Farming and Taming Mobs

Farming and Working with Friendly Mobs

Using Leads

Breeding Animals

Dying for Dye?

Taming and Riding Horses, Donkeys, and More

Armoring Your Horse

Loading Up the Pack

Riding Pigs

Fishing

Ah, the Squid

The Bottom Line

Chapter 8 Creative Construction

Leaving the Cave

Building a Custom World

Unleashing Your Interior Decorator

Building Underwater

Getting Started

Building the Structure

Protecting Your Perimeter

Become a Ditch Witch

Mob Pitfalls

Thick as a Brick

Making Fireworks

The Bottom Line

Chapter 9 Redstone, Rails, and More

Seeing Red: A Beginner’s Guide

Power Sources and Signals

Redstone Wiring

Powered Blocks

Modifiers

Repeaters

Comparators

Output Devices

Automatic Doors

Vertical Currents

Advanced Circuits

NOT Gates, aka Inverters

OR Gates, or Any Input Will Do

AND Gates, Two TRUE

Repeater Loops

Rail Transport

Have Minecart, Will Travel

Rolling on Rails

Making Tracks and Stations

T-Junctions

Halfway Stations

A Word About Hoppers

The Bottom Line

Chapter 10 Enchanting, Anvils, and Brewing

Enchanting Wiles

Creating and Mining Obsidian

Crafting Books

Casting Enchantments

Improving Enchantment Chances with Bookshelves

Earning and Managing Experience

Sprucing Up Your Weapons

Enhancing Your Armor

Improving Your Tools

Hammering It Out with the Anvil

Brewing Potions

Brewing Up a Storm

Enhancing Potions

The Bottom Line

Chapter 11 Villages and Other Structures

Village Life

Emerald City: Your Ticket to Trade

Hidden Temples and Other Structures

Desert Temples

Jungle Temples

Witch Huts

Dungeons

Abandoned Mine Shafts

Strongholds

Ocean Monuments

Nether Fortresses

Mapping, or There and Back Again

Crafting a Clock

The Bottom Line

Chapter 12 Playing Through: The Nether and The End

Alternate Dimensions

Getting to The Nether

Portal Magic

Surviving the Nether Fortress

Nether Mobs

The End Game

Finding a Stronghold

Defeating the Ender Dragon

Beckoning a Beacon

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Chapter 13 Mods and Multiplayer

Customizing Your Experience

Changing the Skin You’re In

Minecraft Skin Editors

Miners Need Cool Shoes

The Skindex

Novaskin

Loading Your New Skin

Resource Packs: Change Your World

Mind My Mods

Installing Forge Mods

TooManyItems

Ruins

Progressive Automation

VoxelMap

Multiplayer Madness

Sharing and Joining on a LAN

Joining a Multiplayer Server

Hosting a Multiplayer Server

Spectator Mode

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Index

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