This Week's Workshop: Music To My Ears The heart of WonderHowTo's Minecraft World is, naturally, “How-To” and so in the spirit of all things tutorial and DIY we will be hosting a weekly workshop showcasing the best and newest tutorials, builds, and inspiring ideas. We hope to ...more
Minecraft is an incredible game with a unique art style that captures its own form of humor and beauty. But if you're more on the creative side, or are a little tired of the current look of Minecraft world, then check out this awesome video! In it, you will learn how to create ...more
The Customizable timer Ever wanted to make a simple timer that ranged from 5 minues to whatever you wanted? It's actually fairly simple! In this tutorial I walk you through every step of the way and have a video to show you it in more detail. You can make this timer anywhere ...more
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. Have you grown tired of the standard "Mojang Doors" that are vastly overused? Are you interested in learning an alternative piston door method? Well, this week's Saturday workshop w ...more
Is that House? Built in Minecraft? Well, time to cross out one more item off my bucket list! As inspiration for this week's Minecraft-themed Tuesday Giveaway (enter here to win an awesome Minecraft Pickaxe!), I present a roundup of amazing things found in Minecraft. The great ...more
In this two part tutorial, you will learn how to build a beach house from scratch in Minecraft. You will need wooden planks, wooden slabs, glass, fence, wooden stairs, levers, doors, pistons, and redstone torches. Once you have all of your resources, you can construct a beauti ...more
In this origami guide, you will learn how to fold a Creeper from just two sheets of paper. This model is easy and can be done in only ten minutes! This is what the origami Creeper looks like. Step 1: Get Your Paper This project needs two sheets. I recommend 10cm x 10cm green ...more
This tutorial shows you how you can set up your own mutliplayer SMP server so you and your friends can play Minecraft together without having to worry about griefers coming in and ruining your fun. It's super easy to set it all up!
The order was given months ago: Build me a royal garden. and less poetically expanded, I dunno, with crops n stuff. Those were the words of my (formerly serial killer) uncle, whose castle sits in the middle of everything, requiring a garden fit for a king. The yard behind ...more
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on ourfree server. Some Minecraft builds are notorious for sweeping scale and epic complexity. We've all seen those mammoth castles and recreations of huge cities like New York, or those incredible obj ...more
Do you have a house or large stone structure that needs a little something more than just a bunch of bare walls? Want to create a "window" to the outside? Well, you can craft glass blocks in Minecraft, crazy right? In this video you will learn how to create your own glass bloc ...more
Want to start a fire? Make arrows for your bow? Not sure where flint is in Minecraft? It's actually right in your inventory already, you just haven't been looking hard enough! In this video you will learn how to create flint by laying gravel and destroying it multiple times un ...more
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. Youtube user FVDisco is always outdoing himself. You may know his work from the Minecraft Player Piano, or his Redstone Slot Machine. Recently, he created an automated mob slaying g ...more
This tutorial shows you how you can set up a non-premium server for playing Minecraft with your friends, without having to use Hamachi. Your users will all need a Minecraft account and a Google account to be able to login.
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. Does your structure sometimes lack that "pizzazz" you seek? Well, this week's Saturday workshop is going to give you a few tips on how to upgrade your builds! This workshop will be ...more
BUD (Block Update Detector) switches can essentially take the place of a regular switch like a lever or a button, but instead of having a "usable" function like pressing the button or flipping the lever, BUD switches trigger when a block next to a piston changes states. There ...more
Dispensers are a new feature of Minecraft, and you can use about ten of them, combined with quite a lot of redstone, to build a cannon (or ballista) that can fire ten arrows at a time. Perfect for home defense!
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. We've done musical workshops before, but for this Saturday's Weekly Workshop we will be creating a multi-channel music sequencer made famous by YouTuber FVDisco! The multi-channel m ...more
Sometimes a simple drowning trap is too boring, and you want something that's a little more stylish and exciting. That's where this trap comes in! This is what I like to call "The Mangler". It consists of a set of pistons that chomp together, literally chewing up your enemies ...more
The animals in Minecraft can either be scarce or very abundant, but a cool way of cutting out the mundane process of searching for them are creating a pit trap. The easiest way to lure them using a path of torches that will lead them into falling into a deep pit that they can' ...more
There are a number of different techniques for building underwater in Minecraft. The easiest is to fill a room with wood or leaves, then set them on fire. It'll burn down, leaving a pocket of air for you. However, if you're on a server like ours, mc.wonderhowto.com, fire does ...more
IF you're interested in giving your Minecraft game that World War look with plans, guns, and more, try installing Flans Mod if you're running version 1.8 of Minecraft. To find out more about what Flans Mod will add to your Minecraft version, take a look at the official Flans M ...more
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our tutorials, post to the community corkboard, and come play on our free server! The workshop last Saturday revolved around how to build a Hidden Passageway, and the turnout was great. We had around eight of us in TeamSpeak, and even I l ...more
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our tutorials, post to the community corkboard, and come play on our free server! Are you tired of your bathroom being the most dull room in your house? Are you looking to spice things up with redstone, but don't know where to begin? If y ...more
Mods can let you change around the way your game looks, and you can download quite a lot of mods for free off Minecraft fan sites. This tutorial shows you where to find the best ones and how to download and install them.
Don't waste time building a slime farm that isn't going to produce slimeballs. Watch this video and learn how to use Slime Finder to find the most productive areas of your Minecraft world for harvesting slimeballs to use with sticky pistons.
Looking for the most efficient wheat farm design in Minecraft? This might be it. Check out this video and learn how to build an automatic wheat farm, with self-harvesting technology. Enjoy all the fruit and none of the labor with this Minecraft build.
Minecarts are a lot more complicated than they may seem at first. Between regular rails, powered rails, and detector rails, they all have a lot of quirks that can make them hard to use. Often, the hardest part is just getting the ride started, but once you've gotten rolling, ...more
You can throw your own rave right in MineCraft! No one has figured out how to make E yet, and you'll have to bring your own music. But when it comes to the flashing strobe lights, this is how you build them in MineCraft.
Looking for some cool designs to build in the planes mod for Minecraft? Check out this video to learn how to build a spitfire in Minecraft planes mod. This spitfire is a great looking flyer, you'll rule the air with it.
Wondering how to build a secret door using pistons in Minecraft? Watch this video tutorial to learn how to use redtsone and pistons to build a secret door. This video will explain how the door works and what materials to use.
Obsidian is a very useful component in any Minecrafter's toolbox, but if you want to easily create a ton of it at once, why not build an obsidian generator so that you can easily get obsidian ore? This video guide will show you exactly what steps to take to build an obsidian g ...more
You see before you the humble block: This single, unassuming block couldn't possibly hold anything of value, right? That's only what we want thieves to think! With a little bit of magic, this block (or any other basic block) can be turned into a secret chest capable of keepi ...more
This is a super easy hack that anyone playing Minecraft on a PC can do. Hack a custom client for the game, which will give you access to things like noclip mode and fly jumps. You won't need a broswer loaded to use this, either.
Achievements in Minecraft are a pretty recent addition to the game. A welcome one, if you ask me, as it gives you some decent goals to work towards. This one, 'Overkill', asks you to deal eight hearts worth of damage in a single swipe with your sword. Check out this video for ...more
In Minecraft, the key to survival is building proper shelter for yourself to survive the nightly attacks by the creatures that roam the land. But whose to say that you can't spruce the place up a little bit? Notch has included a feature in the game that allows you create paint ...more
Have you ever wanted to ride a rollercoaster while listening to Lady Gaga? Or have the Star Wars theme auto-play when you enter your house? You can with Minecraft. Search Youtube for a popular song + Minecraft, and chances are there will be a video for it! Minecraft gives pla ...more
This only works on single player games. You can use the free program Cheat Engine to hack into Minecraft and use it to duplicate items in your inventory. Get as many diamonds, obsidian blocks or gold ingots as you want!
Earlier we've looked at starting off in Survival mode, plus simple combat. Now we look at a more refreshing aspect of Minecraft: Food! Food Ever since the hunger bar was added to Survival mode, food has tripled in its role. Having no food will slowly decrease your hunger bar ...more
In Minecraft 1.9 New Command Blocks can be used to make elevators. You types different commands to achieve controlling the elevator for movement you like. This tutorial tells in Minecraft 1.9 how to use command blocks to make elevator. Lets just have a look at it! Step 1: The ...more
Last week, I did a short tutorial on three main types of flooring for your Minecraft builds. This week, I will be focusing on just one of those—inset floors. This was the first of the three types I briefly covered, and the example I used was an inset fireplace. Here, I will be ...more
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our tutorials, post to the community corkboard, and come play on our free server! The server activity has actually been kinda slow while we wait to install the new 1.2.3 update, but that didn't stop any build progress! Everyone on the ser ...more
Trying to get all your friends together for some multiplayer Minecraft? You'll have to download the server and Hamachi to make this work. This video will explain how to create a multiplayer server for a cracked version of Minecraft beta.
This one is much higher quality than the last video! Feature | Time NPC Village | 00:40 Creative Mode Inventory (Infinite amount of every item!) | 01:01 Rivers, Ravines, Desert Biome | 01:17 Hunger, Experience Points | 02:25 New Bow Mechanics: Zoom-in while charging up | 02: ...more
Check out this video to learn how to build a rapid fire egg dispenser in Minecraft. You can also load this machine with arros, snowballs, and other goodies and watch them fly. This machine fires a lot of items in a little time.
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play with us on our free server. Did you recently create a mansion and need that last finishing touch? Have you considered making an elevator to give your mansion that added elegance, but don't know where t ...more
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our tutorials, post to the community corkboard, and come play on our free server! Tired of building the same old TNT cannon over and over again? Looking for something explosive to occupy your time for the next few hours? Try making this a ...more
Traps are great, but sometimes you don't want to kill anyone, you just want to know when they're around. When that's the case, check out this handy alarm system that uses the power of doors! Doors, you say? Yes, doors! Some of you may already be familiar with how obnoxious doo ...more
If you're looking for a big boom in Minecraft 1.8, try building one of these cannons. The first part of the tutorial will show you how to build a vertical TNT cannon that can create a huge explosion. The second part of the tutorial showcases the creation of a sand or gravel ca ...more
Introduction So, today and yesterday I was playing with TNT (as we all do at one point or another) and was curious about a few things. From this curiosity, I went onto discover some of the science behind some things you may or may not have known. While I was conducting this ...more
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our tutorials, post to the community corkboard, and come play on our free server! We've done a lot of workshops in the past that involved architectural design, interior design, and so much more. To top it off, Leinad has showed us some tu ...more
There's an easy way and a hard way to build a portal in Minecraft. The hard way involves getting your hands on a diamond pick, and those are not thick on the ground. Here is the easy way to build a portal!
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play with us on our free server. Minecraft server plugins have revolutionized the way we build. In the days before Bukkit plugins, hours were spent on even the simplest of projects. World editing tools have ...more
This is a great machine you can build on a shared Minecraft server which will no doubt annoy the pants off your friends! Wire up a couple doors to some redstone circuits - as some open, others will close ad infinitum!
Minecraft 1.9 introduces animal breeding to the game, but it's not such a simple process. You'll need to make sure you have some wheat which is extremely useful in getting the animals to attract to you. After that, you'll be able to start breeding the Minecraft animals--now if ...more
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. Missed the other guides? Click on the links! Contents Starting off & Mobs Combat Food Mining Survivability Welcome back! Today we're going to look at the most important aspect to ...more
While this tutorial shows you only how to install a custom skin for your Minecraft avatar, you can use this procedure to install nearly any skin and mod in your Minecraft game. Make everything look more interesting in your game!
First off, I would like to say two things. One, this is not for beginners; if you don't feel that you understand this how-to at all, do not try it. Second, never ever install random software or change settings if you do not trust the source. If I haven't scared you yet, here ...more
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. Sometimes keeping track of items in Minecraft can get out of hand, and it seems like there's never enough room in chests. With a redstone sorting machine you can easily keep track o ...more
Minecraft is the most basic and barren open sandbox building game. There are a limited number of materials and recipes to craft. But with these few building blocks, people have been able to creatively build some amazing structures and cities. There is a physical limitation, bu ...more