The Ultimate Player's Guide to Minecraft

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 2x1 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

Stephen O'Brien is an Australian-born writer and entrepreneur currently residing in Sydney after too many years in Silicon Valley. He has written more than 30 books across multiple editions with publishers such as Prentice Hall and Que, including several best-selling titles. He also founded Typefi, the world's leading automated publishing system, and in his spare time he invented a new type of espresso machine called mypressi. He has been using Minecraft since its early betas and remains astounded at the unparalleled creativity it engenders. Stephen is also the author of The Advanced Minecraft Strategy Guide, published by Que.