Hacks for Minecrafters: The Unofficial Guide to Tips and Tricks that Other Guides Won't Teach You
Table of Contents Introduction 1 1 Playing Your Way 2 2 Navigating Your World 12 3 Exploring 20 4 Mining 31 5 Fighting 41 6 Animals 49 7 Villages and Villagers 58 8 Building 66 9 Farming 76 10 Food and Fishing 84 11 Enchanting and Potions 90 12 Understanding Redstone 101 13 Railways 113 14 Getting Creative 120 15 The Nether 129 16 The End and Beyond 139
INTRODUCTION You’re a miner You’ve mined for diamonds killed a cou ple or a million zombies and know not to dig straight up or straight down Now what Plenty Minecraft is a constantly evolving sandbox game This means the developers of the game add new things each year and there are many ways to play For version 1 8 Minecraft added ocean monuments new blocks like red sandstone and prismarine banners rabbits updated villagers and enchanting and much more You can expect this game to grow and change as you learn so there are always new things to explore and experiment with And each year thousands of players find new tricks to get things done better faster or with more fun This book will show you lots of ways to help your game whether you like to fight zom bies or build castles including how to save a village from a siege of zombies what to do first to defeat the Ender Dragon how to find one of your world’s three strongholds how to make automatic sliding doors using pistons and redstone how to move between Creative and Survival modes using cheats NOTE The tips in this book are based on Minecraft 1 8 1 PC version so if you are playing a different version or are playing on a console you may find that some features work a little differently
chapter 1 PLAYING YOUR WAY Minecraft is a sandbox game which means there aren’t any rules for how you play In a sandbox you can build a sand castle dig a road or throw a bunch of sand around In Mine craft you can build a massive railway system make friends with wolves and ocelots explore the oceans or kill an army of zom bies Or do it all There’s no goal that you must achieve but if you like goals Minecraft has a few you can set your sights on It’s up to you to decide how to play and you can mix it up any way you want to Minecraft Game Modes Minecraft has different game modes you choose at the start They are geared to the different types of gameplay Survival and Hardcore In Survival mode you have to find food and shelter and you can be killed If you are killed you respawn at your starting point without your inventory Your inventory items stay at your death scene for five minutes before they despawn so you do have a chance to get them back There are four dif ficulty levels Peaceful no mobs Easy mobs do less damage Normal mobs do normal damage and Hard
3 mobs do more damage and you can die from hunger In Hardcore mode you play at Hard difficulty you can’t have cheats and your world is deleted if you are killed In Hard difficulty mobs are more likely to spawn with weapons armor and enchantments and they will cause you more damage Adventure Adventure mode is like Survival except you can’t interact with many blocks It is designed for playing on adventure maps Creative Creative mode is perfect for building You can fly around and you have access to all the blocks Your inventory changes to an item selection screen with a search page To fly press the spacebar twice To go higher press the spacebar again To descend press Shift Changing Mode To change game mode while you are playing create your world with cheats on Then to change mode open the chat window by pressing T and type the following playing your way
