Minecraft Recipes For Dummies, Portable Edition E-Book

Jesse Stay

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 189

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

A quick, handy reference on Minecraft recipes Want to find resources, make a shelter, craft tools, armor, and weapons, and protect yourself from monsters with Minecraft recipes? You've come to the right place! In a handy, portable edition that's packed with step-by-step instructions, Minecraft Recipes For Dummies makes it easy to look up the required items and figure out which blocks you need to gather to create each item. You'll get recipes for weapons, armor, transportation, mechanism, food, dye, wool, and brewing, as well as information on enchanting, repairing, gathering, farming, efficiency, and more. Minecraft is more than just a game: it's an obsession. It has gone from an obscure game with a cult-like following to a mainstream phenomenon. Minecraft consists of players using an avatar to create or destroy various types of blocks, form fantastic structures, create artwork, and much more, all in a three-dimensional environment and across various multiplayer servers in multiple game modes. With this fun and friendly guide, you'll get quick and easy access to Minecraft recipes to enhance your game and get even more out of this popular, addictive game. * Shows you which blocks you'll need to gather to create shelter, tools, armor, weapons, and more * Makes it easier for both beginner and advanced Minecraft players to make the most of the game * Playing the game teaches users basic programming skills and engineering concepts * The author's sons--both avid Minecraft players and bloggers--contributed to the writing of this book Minecraft Recipes For Dummies is the portable guide that goes where you go as you create a world you'll never want to leave.

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Minecraft® Recipes For Dummies

Table of Contents

Introduction

About This Book

Foolish Assumptions

Icons Used in This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

Where to Go from Here

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Recipes

Devising a Game Plan

Using the Inventory

Manipulating the Inventory

Setting Up for Your First Night

Harvesting trees with your fists

Creating wooden planks

Building the crafting table

Storing items in a chest

Erecting a shelter and door

Getting through the night on a bed

Shape Crafting versus Shapeless Crafting

Crafting Tools

Starting with a stick

Lighting the way with a torch

Mining stone and ore with a pickaxe

Smelting with the furnace

Digging dirt with a shovel

Chopping trees with the ax

Tilling ground with a hoe

Chapter 2: Defending Yourself

Creating a Sword

Stringing Your Bow

Crafting an Arrow

Protecting Yourself with Armor

Leather

Donning your helmet

Pounding your chestplate

Putting on leggings

Walking in boots

Armor Stand

Chapter 3: Advancing By Way of Farming and Mining

Harvesting and Farming Food Items

Crafting seeds from melons

Crafting blocks to store melons

Farming pumpkin seeds

Feeding your sugar tooth

Making bread, cake, and cookies

Making pumpkin pie

Brewing mushroom stew

Making wheat and hay bales

Making the golden carrot

Crafting golden apples

Retrieving the enchanted golden apple

Making beetroot soup

Cooking rabbit stew

Smelting Food

Building Utensils

Building a fishing rod

Creating a bucket

Building bowls

Crafting shears

Building fences

Making a fence gate

Building cobblestone walls

Building a nether brick fence

Taking the lead

Mining Ore

Smelting Ore into Ingot

Smelting an iron ingot

Making gold ingots

Burning charcoal

Crafting Blocks of Minerals

Crafting coal blocks

Making diamond blocks and emerald blocks

Producing gold blocks and nuggets

Crafting lapis lazuli blocks

Making redstone blocks

Producing iron blocks

Nether Quartz

Chapter 4: Advancing through Engineering

Discovering Fire

Crafting and lighting TNT

Creating fire with flint and steel

Building a fire charge

Creating Transportation

Dangling a carrot on a stick

Rowing your boat

Working on the railroad

Constructing a powered rail

Building a detector rail

Activating the activator rail

Riding the minecart

Building storage minecarts

Making a minecart with a furnace

Crafting a minecart with hopper

Exploding your way through a minecart with TNT

Engineering with Redstone

Pressing the button

Crafting pressure plates

Upgrading to weighted pressure plates

Constructing trapdoors

Securing the proximity with a tripwire hook

Protecting your inventory with a trapped chest

Turning on items with a lever

Dropping inventory through the dispenser

Building a dropper

Picking up items with a hopper

Pushing items remotely with a piston

Constructing a sticky piston

Detecting light with a daylight sensor

Powering the lights with a redstone torch

Lighting the way with a redstone lamp

Extending power with a redstone repeater

Determining logic with a redstone comparator

Sounding the alarm with a note block

Designing fireworks with a firework star

Launching the firework rocket

Spawning items using the nether reactor core

Chapter 5: Expanding Your House

Climbing with Ladders

Messaging with Signs

Banners

Decorating with Flowerpots

Utilizing Paper

Enchanting with Books

Writing Stories with a Book and Quill

Building a Bookshelf

Navigating with an Empty Map

Orienting with a Compass

Telling the Time with a Clock

Hanging Paintings

Storing with an Item Frame

Signaling with a Beacon

Crafting on an Anvil

Sharing with an Ender Chest

Seeing through the Eye of Ender

Using Glass

Dealing with Glass Panes

Carving a Jack-o’-Lantern

Lighting the Way with Glowstone

Letting It Snow

Weaving White Wool

Building Iron Bars

Playing a Jukebox

Chapter 6: Crafting with Decorative Blocks

Placing Slabs

Climbing Stairs

Storing More Clay in Your Inventory with Clay Block

Cooking Bricks

Building with Stone Bricks

Protecting Yourself with Nether Bricks

Siding with Sandstone

Decorating with Quartz

Navigating with Moss Stone

Growing with Coarse Dirt

Protecting Yourself from Flames with Diorite

Mining Granite

Decorating with Andesite

Building from Ocean Monuments with Prismarine

Mining prismarine shards and prismarine crystals

Creating prismarine

Crafting prismarine bricks

Making dark prismarine

Lighting up the sea with sea lanterns

Working with Sponges

Chapter 7: Creating and Applying Dyes

Creating the 16 Dyes

Starting with bonemeal

Going gloomy (or industrial) with light gray dye

Getting gloomier with gray dye

Mixing up black with ink sacs

Popping out rose red

Prettying with pink

Making dandelion yellow dye

Crafting orange dye

Making cactus green dye

Mixing lime dye

Mining blue lapis lazuli

Making light blue dye

Aquafying things with cyan

Preparing purple dye

Coloring with magenta

Finding brown dye

Applying Dye to Items

Dyeing wool and sheep

Crafting and dyeing carpets

Changing the color of wolf collars

Making stained glass with dyed glass panes

Stained clay

Dyed leather armor

Chapter 8: Enchantment and Brewing Recipes

Building an Enchantment Table

Picking an Enchantment, Any Enchantment

Making Brewing Tools

Making glass bottles

Brewing in cauldrons

Making a brewing stand

Crafting Brewing Ingredients

Making blaze powder

Making magma cream

Making the eye of ender

Brewing fermented spider eye

Healing with glistening melon

Understanding Brewing

Making positive potions

Concocting negative potions

Brewing advanced potions

Making the potion of invisibility

Chapter 9: Ten Essential Minecraft Ingredients

Building the Basics with Wood

Wielding Sticks to Advance in the Game

Adding Texture with Wool

Feeding Yourself and Animals with Wheat

Building the Basics with Cobblestone

Shooting Items with Gunpowder

Building Solid Tools with Iron Ingot

Enchanting with Gold Ingot

Thinking Logically with Redstone

Discovering Diamonds

About the Authors

Guide

Table of Contents

Begin Reading

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Introduction

If you’re reading this book there’s a good chance you’re one of two people – a parent, wanting to learn more about what your kids are doing in Minecraft, or a teen or pre-teen wanting to have a quick reference to learn every little recipe you can get your hands on within the vast world of Minecraft. This book is for both of you!

Minecraft, or as Jesse calls it, “Virtual LEGOs,” are the building blocks of the new generation. From geology to construction to mining to gardening, and even electricity, programming, and logic, Minecraft will teach you (if you’re in the pre-teen crowd), or your children (if you’re the parent) all sorts of things as you explore this mystical universe.

Minecraft is all about exploring. The more you explore, the more you discover. It’s our hope that as you explore this book, you’ll also discover many new things you can try in the incredible world of Minecraft!

About This Book

From Jesse (Thomas’s Dad):

When I was 10 years old I took a programming course in the summer that changed my life. I was enamored by the ability to make things on the screen, and watch them perform, as I told them to perform. I started reading articles in the 3-2-1 Contact magazine I got every month and trying out the programming examples I learned in the back, adapting, learning, and soon creating my own things.

This type of learning has gone away in our current school system and society. We just expect our kids to gain programming knowledge, and there are not many places on computers for them to explore like I had growing up. It wasn’t until my kids started to play Minecraft that I started to see this environment of exploration come back into mine, and my kids’, life.

When I started building the concepts of this book, I realized how great a family activity the game of Minecraft is. The truth is, my son Thomas and my other sons are really the experts, and I’m here to learn from them, so I approached the book in this same manner. In fact I let Thomas write most of the book — yes, this book was written by a 12 year old just like you, your siblings, or even your children (if you’re an adult). Then, I would review his material, make sure you could understand it, and added any missing content I felt you might be interested in. Sometimes even his younger brothers Joseph and JJ, would pitch in a screenshot or a tip.

In this book, we assume you may have a little knowledge of Minecraft (perhaps through Minecraft For Dummies), but need a good reference on what you can do in Minecraft, and what types of things you need to gather to advance in the game. This book serves as a reference to help you start building, and once you know how to build, you can then focus on the exploring, the true essence of Minecraft.

This book is a reference. You should be able to pick it up, and sift from chapter to chapter and not even in order, and you’ll still be able to learn plenty. There is no need to read each chapter in order (but if you do, that’s great too!).

Minecraft is constantly updating. There will likely be new recipes, potions, and other types of creations that get released perhaps even before this goes to print. We did our best to include as many as we can in this book, but there will certainly be more!

From Thomas:

In this book, the knowledge that you get is nothing like anything you’ve ever seen before. When I started out on Minecraft, I knew a lot about the game, but I didn’t know any of the recipes, much less what the blocks could do. I didn’t know most of the enchantments, or much about brewing potions. This book takes a player with average or beginner experience, just like a 12-year-old me, and leads that guy or girl to a much higher level in the game. Most people don’t know a lot of things in Minecraft when they first get started. This book teaches you how to get there. As you read this, I’ll take you along the same journey I did.

To stay up-to-date on updates, be sure to follow the Minecraft Wiki at http://minecraft.gamepedia.com. We will also be posting updates on Facebook at http://facebook.com/minecraftrecipes, and even our YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/minecraftrecipesfd.

Foolish Assumptions

We’d rather not assume anything. But because there are so many of you, we have to assume a few things! These are the things you should probably have available, or be familiar with as you go throughout this book:

You have a computer or a mobile device (chances are most of you are playing Minecraft on a mobile device through Minecraft PE)You know basic skills of accessing the Internet.If using the PC version, your computer can download and run Java programs.You have a basic understanding of making your way around Minecraft.

Icons Used in This Book

For your convenience, we’ve placed icons throughout the margins to help you understand more about the content we’re sharing. These are the common icons and how we use them:

If we have a tip to share in addition to the content you’re reading, you see this icon.

When we present information you’ll want to keep top of mind, this icon appears in the margin next to that information.

This is the stuff you should pay attention to – don’t skip it! Something will go wrong if you don’t heed the advice here.

Perhaps for the more geeky, or just those that like to learn, this will take you to the next level, and show you how to learn more than what this book was intended for.

Conventions Used in This Book

Throughout the book, you’ll see numbered steps, bullet lists, screen shots, as well as little icons signifying different ingredients for recipes. You may also see web addresses in monotype font that look like this:

http://minecraft.gamepedia.com

Where to Go from Here

This is only the beginning! Remember: the end game is not necessarily the end! Take the things you learn here and explore. Go check out redstone and explore new ways to build advanced circuitry and logic. Build your own worlds! Build a farm! Make your own mods. Quite literally, the world is at your fingertips in Minecraft!

If you really want to take it to another level, we mentioned in the earlier section, “About This Book,” the Minecraft wiki. We also suggest the Facebook Page (http://facebook.com/minecraftrecipes) and YouTube channel (http://youtube.com/minecraftrecipesfd) where we’ll post regular updates of current and new recipe ideas in Minecraft. Come join us (Thomas and sometimes his younger brothers and Jesse) and say hi!

Chapter 1

Getting Started with Recipes

In This Chapter

Finding, stocking, and using your inventory

Crafting items you need for the first day and night

Knowing the difference between shape and shapeless crafting

Crafting some basic tools

Minecraft, as its name implies, is about, well, crafting. Minecraft has roughly 180 crafting recipes (and many more in the works), ranging from tools to foods and from household items to magical potions and more. Learning how to craft from essential items to more elaborate redstone recipes helps you survive early in the game and then create a wealthy empire filled with useful and luxury items.

After you create a new world in Minecraft, the first order of business is to survive the first night. A Minecraft day lasts for 20 minutes; you experience 10-minute daytimes and 3 minutes total of sunrise and sunset, during which you can prepare for the 7-minute nights, when dangerous monsters spawn in the darkness.

In this chapter, you find out how the inventory works and how to craft basic items that can help you survive the first Minecraft day. You also see how these items enable you to use increasingly sophisticated materials and craft increasingly complex items.

Devising a Game Plan

After your avatar appears, you need to find a living space with some trees and a suitable (usually flat) area for building.

Always locate trees when starting a game, because you use wooden materials to craft most of the items you need. To survive the first night, craft these elements:

Crafting table (also known as a workbench), used for buildingStorage chestShelter with a door

You can also craft useful but non-essential items for the first night:

Wooden and stone toolsTorchesFurnaceBed

Later sections in this chapter explain how to craft these items.

When you start creating your own world, you may discover that the sun is setting too fast for you to finish preparing for night. If that’s the case, you can press Esc to open the Pause menu and choose Options⇒Difficulty repeatedly until it reads Difficulty: Peaceful. This option makes the world much safer and causes your health to regenerate.

Using the Inventory

Before you start gathering materials and crafting items, you should know how to manage the Inventory screen. The 9 squares at the bottom of the game screen display items you’ve obtained. For example, if you break a block such as wood or dirt, an item pops out that is automatically picked up, causing it to appear in one of the inventory squares. The row of squares at the bottom of the game screen represents a quarter of the inventory.

To see the entire inventory, as shown in Figure 1-1, press E.

Figure 1-1: The Inventory screen.

You should be familiar with these four components of the inventory:

Inventory slots: The 4 rows of squares at the bottom of the screen, where you see your items. You select the items in the bottom row outside the Inventory screen with the 1–9 keys on the keyboard.Crafting grid: A 2-by-2 square, followed by an arrow pointing toward another square to the right. When you want to craft basic items, such as torches or mushroom stew, place the ingredients on the grid to make the result appear on the other side of the arrow. After you create a crafting table, the crafting grid expands to a 3-by-3 grid.Character portrait: A small screen showing what your character looks like now. This portrait can change when your character sits or sleeps, wears armor, gets hit by arrows, drinks invisibility potions, catches fire, and more.Armor slots: