Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Foolish Assumptions; How This Book Is Organized; Part I: Getting Started with Minecraft; Part II: Learning Basic Survival Skills; Part III: Developing Advanced Skills; Part IV: Customizing Minecraft; Part V: Making Minecraft a Family Affair; Part VI: The Part of Tens; Icons Used in This Book; Beyond the Book; Part I: Getting Started with Minecraft; Chapter 1: Entering Minecraft; Getting to Know Minecraft; Registering a Minecraft Account; Purchasing and Installing Minecraft.
Playing the GameLogging in and operating the main menu; Starting your first game in SinglePlayer mode; Understanding basic controls; Watching the Heads-Up Display (HUD); Minecraft PE; Purchasing PE; Starting PE; Understanding the Heads-Up Display (HUD) for PE; Chapter 2: Surviving the First Night; Preparing for Your First Night; Devising a game plan; Using the inventory; Manipulating the inventory; Setting Up for Your First Night; Harvesting trees; Building a crafting table and shelter; Making sticks and wooden tools; Completing Optional Day One Activities; Constructing a chest.
Mining cobblestone and coalBuilding 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; Surviving the Night; Implementing a Minecraft PE strategy for surviving the night; Part II: Learning the Basic Skills; Chapter 3: Surviving Hunger; Understanding and Avoiding Hunger; Finding food; Eating food; Saturation: Making the most of your food; Limiting exhaustion; Understanding Minecraft PE and Food; Attacking and Defending; Making Weapons; Wielding swords; Stringing the bow.
Protecting Yourself with ArmorWearing leather; Donning the helmet; Pounding the chestplate; Putting on leggings; Walking in your boots; Storing armor; Chapter 4: Discovering Blocks and Items; Starting In the Wooden Age; Making It Through the Looting Age; Surviving the Stone Age; Using the Furnace; Using the Stonecutter with Minecraft PE; Building an Effective House; Moving from Effective Houses to Bases; Part III: Mastering Techniques; Chapter 5: Understanding Biomes and Mastering Farms; Knowing Your Biomes; Generating worlds; Growing flowers; Playing in snowy biomes; Chilling in cold biomes.
Living in medium biomesRoasting in warm biomes; Exploring in neutral biomes; Building the Perfect Farm; Growing crops; Knowing the basic plants; Farming animals; Growing mushrooms; Knowing the PE Farming Differences; Examining Different Types of Mobs; Living with docile mobs; Protecting yourself from hostile mobs; Ignoring neutral and allied mobs; Raising pets; Playing with PE mobs; Chapter 6: Mastering Mines; Mining Efficiently; Cave mining; Digging into branch mining; Stepping into staircase mining; Building a quarry; Ripping into strip mining; Rushing into speed mining.
From the eBook - Portable edition.
Minecraft® For Dummies®, Portable Edition; About the Author; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Foolish Assumptions; Icons Used in This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; Bonus Content at Dummies.com; Where to Go from Here; Chapter 1: Entering Minecraft; Registering a Minecraft Account; Purchasing and Installing Minecraft; Playing the Game; Chapter 2: Planning for Your First Night; Devising a Game Plan; Using Your Inventory; Manipulating Your Inventory; Setting Up for Your First Night; Completing Optional Day One Activities; Preparing to Survive
Chapter 3: Overcoming Long-Term ObstaclesUnderstanding and Avoiding Hunger; Building, Mining, and Farming; Advancing Toward the End; Chapter 4: Discovering Blocks and Implementing Items; The Wooden Age; The Looting Age; The Stone Age; Using the Furnace; Chapter 5: Mastering Mines and Farms; Mining Efficiently; Building the Perfect Farm; Chapter 6: Surviving through Invention; Building Masterpieces; Engineering with Redstone; Enchanting Weapons, Tools, and Armor; Brewing Potions; Creatively Improving Your World; Playing in Creative Mode; Chapter 7: Understanding the Natural World
Sightseeing in the BiomesExamining Different Types of Mobs; Chapter 8: Understanding the Man-Made World; Trading in Villages; Excavating Structures; Playing with MultiPlayer Chapter 9: and Cheats; Starting or Joining a Multiplayer World; Using the Chat Menu; Chapter 10: Customizing Your Experience; Surviving Hardcore Mode; Exploring Adventure Mode; Implementing Additional World Options; Managing the .minecraft Folder; Checking Out External Sites and Resources; Chapter 11: Ten Helpful Survival Tips; Digging Safely; Cooking Efficiently; Obtaining Obsidian and Portals Quickly
Mining in the Right LocationAvoiding Overexertion; Defeating Basic Mobs; Amassing Colored Wool; Crafting Quickly; Checking Basic Equipment; Finding Natural Comfort; Index