Table of Content
<> Introduction 1 What''s In This Book 1 How to Use This Book 3 Crafting Recipes 3 Chapter 1 Getting Started 5 Starting a New Game 6 More Options 11 Single-Player Game Modes 13 Hosting and Controlling Multiplayer Games 15 Understanding World Seeds 19 Controls 19 The Bottom Line 21 Chapter 2 First-Night Survival 23 Surviving and Thriving 23 Heading for the Trees 25 Using Your Inventory 26 Building a Crafting Table 28 Let''s Build Some Tools 30 Creating a Shelter 31 The Furnace Is Your Friend 35 Let There Be Light 36 Slumbering with Lumber 38 The Bottom Line 41 Chapter 3 Gathering Resources 43 Introducing the HUD 43 Avoiding Getting Lost 46 Improving Your Tools 47 Chests: Safely Stashing Your Stuff 49 Avoiding Monsters 51 Hunger Management 53 Your Mission: Food, Resources, and Reconnaissance 54 Food on the Run 56 Finding a Building Site 58 A Resourceful Guide to the Creative Mode Inventory 61 The Bottom Line 63 Chapter 4 Mining 65 Dig Deep, My Friend 65 The Mining Layer Cake Guide 67 Lava Lakes and Other Pitfalls 69 Descending to Layer 11 70 The 2×1 Ladder Descent 71 The Straight Staircase 73 The Spiral Staircase 74 Layouts for Fast, Efficient Mining 75 Staying Safe While You Mine 78 The Bottom Line 79 Chapter 5 Combat School 81 Introducing the Menagerie 81 Zombies 82 Spiders 83 Skeletons 85 Cave Spiders 86 Spider Jockeys 87 Creepers 88 Slimes 89 Endermen 90 Zombie Pigmen 90 Defensive Mobs 91 Snow Golems 91 Iron Golems 92 Weapons and Armor 93 Swordcraft 94 Bows and Arrows 94 Armor-All 97 Color Coordinate Your Leather 99 The Bottom Line 100 Chapter 6 Crop Farming 103 Choosing a Crop 103 Finding Seeds in Elysium 106 Establishing a Wheat Farm 108 Automated Farms 114 Creating a Piston Harvester 118 Sticky Piston Harvesting 120 Creating a Water Harvester 121 Harvesting Other Crops 124 The Bottom Line 125 Chapter 7 Farming and Taming Mobs 127 Farming and Working with Friendly Mobs 127 Breeding Animals 130 Riding Pigs 133 Fishing 133 The Bottom Line 134 Chapter 8 Creative Construction 137 Leaving the Cave 137 Unleashing Your Interior Decorator 140 Building Underwater 147 Protecting Your Perimeter 153 Becoming a Ditch Witch 153 Mob Pitfalls 155 Thick as a Brick 157 The Bottom Line 157 Chapter 9 Redstone, Rails, and More 159 Seeing Red: A Beginner''s Guide 160 Power Sources 160 Redstone Wiring 163 Powered Blocks 164 Repeaters 166 Output Devices 168 Automatic Doors 170 Vertical Currents 176 Advanced Circuits 177 NOT Gates, aka Inverters 177 OR Gates, or Any Input Will Do 178 AND Gates, Two True 179 Repeater Loops 180 Rail Transport 181 Have Minecart, Will Travel 181 Rolling on Rails 183 Making Tracks and Stations 184 Halfway Stations 185 The Bottom Line 186 Chapter 10 Enchanting, Anvils, and Brewing 187 Enchanting Wiles 187 Creating and Mining Obsidian 189 Crafting Books 192 Casting Enchantments 192 Improving Enchantment Chances with Bookshelves 194 Earning and Managing Experience 195 Sprucing Up Your Weapons 196 Enhancing Your Armor 197 Improving Your Tools 197 Hammer It Out with the Anvil 198 Brewing Potions 200 Brewing Up a Storm 202 Enhancing Potions 205 The Bottom Line 206 Chapter 11 Villages and Other Structures 207 Village Life 207 Emerald City: Your Ticket to Trade 210 Other Structures 212 Desert Temples 213 Jungle Temples 214 Dungeons 215 Abandoned Mineshafts 216 Strongholds 216 Nether Fortresses 217 Mapping, or There and Back Again 217 Crafting a Clock 218 The Bottom Line 219 Chapter 12 Playing Through: The Nether and The End 221 Alternate Dimensions 221 Getting to The Nether 224 Portal Magic 225 Surviving the Nether Fortress 229 Nether Mobs 230 The End Game 232 Finding a Stronghold 234 Defeating the Ender Dragon 237 The Bottom Line 241 Index 243