Minecraft may seem like a game for just hardcore gamers and computer nerds, but it's totally not. It can hook anyone and everyone, from casual gamers to online addicts to total newbies—it can even turn its users into serial killers. And now, Notch and his Mojang crew have made ...more
Maybe you want to hide your farm from others. Or maybe you just like the idea of building an underground farm in Minecraft. Besides the room itself, you'll need a fair amount of wood, water, dirt, seeds, and a hoe to construct this.
MMO Champion member ramsesakama has recreated the Kalimdor region from WoW in Minecraft. Here are some highlights (hit the link for the full thread).
Don't let your hard work go to waste. If you are wondering why you can't save after playing creative Minecraft, this video has your answer. Watch this and learn how to save in creative Minecraft. Preserve your work for generations.
If you want to install a Minecraft 1.8 server on a Mac computer, this guide will walk you through it. Make sure you download the Minecraft 1.8 server files from the Minecraft site so that you're sure the files are legit!
This mod was designed to improve the quality of the ambient light in your Minecraft game. It's super easy to add to your game. This tutorial shows you where to find the mod and then how to install it on your computer.
Check out this video to learn how to build an automatic water elevator in Minecraft beta 1.6.6. This video can be a source of inspiration for your own automatic water elevator design, which can be made out of glass or wood.
Want to set up your own multiplayer server so you can play MineCraft with your friends? From the initial download to your first logon, this tutorial shows you how you can build and set up your own server for multiplayer Minecraft!
Notched entered Ludumdare's 48 hour game competition (one of his regular outlets) where he created a mini 2d Minecraft. You can play it now after the jump below ...more
Food is a huge part of Minecraft, specifically the delicious melons and pumpkins that are growable in the game. Take a look at this video guide to learn how to maximize your melon and pumpkin farming techniques in Minecraft 1.8.
Video: . Learn how to make the beginning of a city that we're building in Minecraft.
This is a basic instruction video on how cannons work within Minecraft. You're shown how to build one using stone, water and redstone. After you've tested your circuitry, load it up with a few blocks of TNT and then start firing away!
The Minecraft portal, part of the October 31st Halloween Update, is a frame of Obsidian that teleports the player to the Nether. Watch this video and learn how to create a Portal in Minecraft, avoiding obsidian mining, and without diamond tools.
Have you ever wanted to make redstone go as far as the eye can see? Well now you can with a design that I use to make redstone go 100000000 blocks without any delay! I showed this to many of the players on the server, and they all seemed to love it! Come check it out at www.yo ...more
If you're interested in running the Minecraft 1.9 pre-release on your server and giving it a spin (or letting others with the Minecraft 1.9 pre-release client give it a spin), take a look at this guide to setting up and installing the server. This guide will also help people w ...more
Having a hard time finding those endermen and creepers in the deep, dark caves of your Minecraft world? This guide will help you adjust the brightness settings in the Minecraft 1.8 pre-release and help you access the different world options.
This is the first boss we are releasing out of a "boss series" coming soon this summer! Using redstone, I think we managed to get the "boss feeling" in minecraft! The Blaze has 3 phases with several mechanics. Important: Singleplayer on Peaceful! Tips For phase 1, you will ...more
Shoot at zombies, fire livestock or just build it to see it blow up! This tutorial shows you how to build a working cannon in the game Minecraft. You will need quite a lot of stone, dirt and water for this project.
Check out this video to get the knowledge and information you need to build your own Minecraft water elevator. This video explains how to build a water elevator in Minecraft beta 1.6. Watch and learn how to engineer this Minecraft creation.
Check out this video to learn an awesome building technique for Minecraft. Follow along with this demonstration and you'll be able to add a bookshelf to your Minecraft world that closes its sliding door automatically. Enjoy this stylish addition to Minecraft.
One of the best traps you can build in Minecraft is one that uses pistons to work. This video shares a design for a piston trap. Follow the step by step instructions in this video to learn how to build this mob trap.
Playing Minecraft on your Mac? Wondering how to install the Too Many Items mod you've been hearing so much about? Check out this video to learn how to download and install this Minecraft mod and take your Minecraft 1.6 experience to a whole new level.
An aquaduct will help you move water to and fro on your island when playing Minecraft, and this tutorial shows you how to build one. You'll need at least a few shovels to be able to construct this, and some stone will also be helpful.
In Minecraft, survival is key, but also being able to take advantage of your surroundings and creating clever traps can help further you along as well! In this video you will learn how to create a landmine with TNT and a pressure plate, so when a cow, a pig, a zombie, heck, wh ...more
Don't like using INVedit? Fortunately, you can use Cheat Engine to accomplish many of the same things. This tutorial shows you how to use the hacking program Cheat Engine (version 5.5) to hack your inventory and available items in Minecraft.
Use Iron Trapdoors and redstone to make a moving bridge in Minecraft. This video has specific, easy to follow instructions for building a moving bridge. Watch and learn how to replicate this clever bit of Minecraft engineering with single player commands.
This trap is best built on a patch of ice - no monsters will spawn there, and you can still walk and build on it. You will also need quite a lot of stone to make this mob trap in Minecraft. Part 1 of 2 - How to Build a mob trap on the ice in Minecraft. Part 2 of 2 - How to Bu ...more
You've got to have cobblestone. Make sure your supply is never short by building a cobblestone generator, so that you have infinite cobblestone. Give yourself the advantage in Minecraft by watching this video and following the design and building technique.
Wondering how you can allocate more RAM to Minecraft? Watch this video to learn how to dedicate more of your computer's RAM to Minecraft. This video contains the code to enter into your computer to change the allocation of RAM for Minecraft.
Are you tired of monsters or unwanted other players coming down your tunnels full of precious Minecraft ore? Why not build a classic hidden arrow trap for them? This video will show you how to do so, and demonstrate it's brutal effectiveness.
Check out this Minecraft building guide to learn how to build a machine gun that can fire 25 arrows a second. If you need to secure your home from mobs, or you just want to have an awesome machine gun, watch this video.
I've often marvelled at the complex worlds people come up with on Minecraft. I particularly enjoy looking at maps with skyscrapers and modern structures in modern cities. If you're one of those people too, check out this sneak peek for a tour of a world-class city containing r ...more
Check out this truly incredible redstone mechanism by Users Rezz and Psycho_ewt! It's an automated redstone game with a twist. You control the interactive screen using a retro NES controller. Let us know what you think or if you'd like to see us reverse engineer it. This build ...more
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. We've worked with redstone before and while it never fails to impress, this week we'll be getting really technical. We'll be going over the basics for creating a redstone calculator ...more
Being able to hide your redstone makes your trap look a little nicer, and also reduces the possibility of accidentally disturbing the line of redstone. This tutorial shows you a creative way to hide your lines of redstone wiring when building Minecraft traps.
Check out this video to learn a great way to customize your Minecraft skin with Skincraft. Skincraft is a Minecraft skin creator that you can use to make your own Minecraft skin. Make your own character to explore your Minecraft world!
In Minecraft there is a possibility of spawning on a floating island in the world. And although this is rare, it does happen, and it can be frustrating being stuck on one single platform while not being able to get down to the world below you. Instead of falling down and dying ...more
So you've managed to build an awesome tower in Minecraft, but you're tired of walking up and down the stairs to get in and out. The solution is to build a water elevator! All you need now is a boat!
Building a house in Minecraft is easy, but what if you want to build that house or building underwater? This guide will take you through the process of constructing a building underwater using the Poncho Pack mod in Minecraft 1.8 Download Poncho Pack 4.9
If you're interested in creating your own GUI button in Minecraft, take a look at this tutorial to find out how to create and add one to the game using the ModLoader and MCP utilities. This is a bit of an advanced tutorial for Minecraft mod creators.
What's a door that doesn't open? Useless. If you are having trouble getting your double iron doors to open in Minecraft, watch this video. You'll learn how to hook up a circuit that will power the doors open whenever you want.
Looking to enhance your Minecraft experience with the Portal Gun mod? Start by watching this video. You'll have to download Modloader and Audiomod and the Portal Gun. Playing Minecraft on your Mac will just keep getting better. Have fun with the Portal Gun!
Delve into the Underworld! This tutorial shows you how to build a portal into the Nether in your game of Minecraft. You will need lots of obsidian to build this, so find a pool of still lava as your first step.
Notch posted the pre-release of Minecraft 1.8 before it got an official release. If you want to install Minecraft 1.8, take a look at this tutorial for instructions on adding the update to your Minecraft folder in Windows on your PC. You can download the pre-release on the Min ...more
Hello everyone today I am going to be going over installing Minecraft on Linux (Ubuntu) as if it is any regular program a game. This method makes it super easy and clean in that you will not need to run a .jar every time you want to play this game. This is very simple to do an ...more
Everyone talks about Minecraft and Logic Gates all the time and the various uses for red stone, heck, someone even made a fully useable calculator! But using Red Stone takes a special kind of math and logic that some may be confused about. In this video you will learn the basi ...more
Make sure you have piles and piles of dirt before you start this project! Not for a beginner at Minecraft, this tutorial shows you how to build your own underwater base. All you have to do is drop dirt and stone into the water, and then hollow it out.
Privacy is important. If having your own Minecraft world isn't enough, build yourself a secret room in your Minecraft world. Watch this video to learn how to build a hidden room, perfect for storage of the most valuable items in Minecraft beta.
Want to be the master of your domain? Make zombies and other monsters spawn where you want them. This tutorial shows you how to use the free software NTB edit to hack MineCraft and alter the spawn points for monsters.
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Here's a friendly video introduction to all of the new things coming to your Minecraft world with the Minecraft beta 1.7 update. Learn how to craft and use shears, TNT, and pistons, by watching this video. It's a whole new Minecraft!
You can easily control the direction that both water and lava flow using some redstone circuitry. Unfortunately, this trick will only work once before needing to be reset - but it's still useful for building lava traps or other machines.
One of the many significant changes in Minecraft Beta 1.3 is the way half-blocks or slabs work. Before you could make stone slabs out of three pieces of stone and use them to builds stairs, but it took a lot of material and was limiting as far as choices. Now you can make slab ...more
This video will show you how to build a pole in Minecraft. Poles are a great design element that you can sue when creating a number of different structures. You can make entrances, light posts, whatever you can imagine once you've watched this Minecraft video.
28 Weeks Later in Minecraft took a team of 20 people 3 months to complete. Behind the scenes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcByQV1i09M Co-directors channel: http://www.youtube.com/BatIgorIsOne Side-by-side with the real movie: http://bit.ly/paOtBX (Audio from film used u ...more
Diamond has the highest hardness and thermal conductivity of any bulk material. It's also considered incredibly beautiful and a symbol of live. Here we take a look at how they stack up against their virtual counterparts. Diamond is the second rarest mineral in the game. Only ...more
This will give you more than enough time to get to safety - set your bombs to have five minute timers when you're doing some heavy demoltion work in Minecraft (or, you know, trying to sabotage your friends' island as well).
With this, you can trade worlds with your friends, or bring a save game from one machine onto another. All you need is to make sure that both computers have Minecraft installed, then find your save game file and move it around!
Most Minecraft player would agree that if the game is missing anything, it's Zombies. Thankfully, there's a mod for that. Download WinRar and the ZombieCraft mod and follow the instructions given in this Minecraft mod install guide to zombi ...more
You can build your own Nether Gate mold in Minecraft! And the best part is, you won't even need some diamond tools to do it! All you need is some buckets of water, dirt and lava... and a lot of patience.