Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our tutorials, post to the community corkboard, and come play on our free server! Our previous workshop on building an automatic boat dock went really well. A lot of Minecrafters showed up and everyone got right to work on their own versi ...more
Are you tired of wasting diamonds and iron on creating hoes? Are you looking for a fun way to farm melons? Or do you simply want to show off to your friends? This tutorial will go over how to make a jaw-dropping semiautomatic melon farm. Not only will you be the talk of the se ...more
Giveaway Tuesdays has officially ended! But don't sweat it, WonderHowTo has another World that's taken its place. Every Tuesday, Phone Snap! invites you to show off your cell phone photography skills. Submit your best shot to our weekly competition for a chance to win an awes ...more
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. Redstone gives you the power to construct an endless number of possible machines, mechanisms, and devices. With redstone one can move more efficiently, send messages long distance, ...more
Flooring is a very important part of your Minecraft builds. I've already shown you the three types of flooring designs and went into further details about inset flooring. Now it's time for the second main category of floor types—patterned floors. Patterned floors use two or m ...more
You will need to have the most current version of Cheat Engine and Minecraft Alpha running on your computer. When you are running Minecraft, open up Cheat Engine and use the video to hack the game so you can duplicate as many inventory items as you would like.
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. We're back again for another Pre-release! This time around it's 1.9 Version 4. Notch released version 4 today saying, "...instead of trying to squeeze in another real release, we’r ...more
As I said before in my earlier post on how to make a two-tone doorbell, sound is more than just music. Note blocks can create a wide variety of notes and sounds, and those can be used for more than just making a stirring rendition of "Still Alive" from Portal. In this tutoria ...more
Minecraft mods (modifications) are additions to the game that change the way you play. They include texture packs, shaders, changes in gameplay, additions and subtractions and everything in between. Some of this information is very basic, other bits might help you along if you ...more
Have you ever wanted to make your own Minecraft server on Windows? This tutorial will teach you how, without having to download Hamachi. The whole process is a lot simpler than you might think, and it will only take a few minutes! You will need: Firefox web browser Computer ...more
When starting out in Minecraft, the first thing you focus on is creating a shelter to seal yourself into to make it through the first night without getting eaten by a zombie or shot to death by a skeleton. But if you want something a little more conventional, try building a ho ...more
Let's face it. Minecraft probably wouldn't exist today if not for LEGOs. They are fundamentally the same; building objects out of blocks. Only Minecraft has expanded on the idea, creating a world where nearly anything can be made. It's probably even more accurate to say that M ...more
Here's a noncomprehensive list of current features confirmed and experienced in Minecraft 1.8. If you have anything to add, please do so in the comment section below. Biomes are MUCH larger and more uniform than before. Swamp Biomes were added to the list of existing biomes ...more
One fun way of showing off your creations to people in Minecraft is to share your save file for the world to see. But once you've downloaded them, figuring out how to use them is the hard part. In this video you will get a basic walkthrough of how to install and run other peop ...more
In Minecraft, survival is key, especially at night when the creatures of the darkness come out to play. If you're doing a lot of crafting work at night, one big pain is going out to get water and trying to find new sources of water. Wouldn't it be great if you could create a p ...more
Tame wild horses when running the popular Mo Creatures Mod in Minecraft! This Minecraft players guide will teach you everything you need to know to fulfill your equestrian ambitions. For complete instructions, watch the video! Search WonderHowTo for more Minecraft tips, trick ...more
Although your friends might roll their eyes every time you talk about playing Clash of Clans, Call of Duty, or Candy Crush Saga, your excessive gaming habits might actually be making you healthier than everyone else. I've got your attention now, right? Read on for 8 insanely ...more
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. Real time redstone clocks are a marvel of redstone technology. Not only can they keep track of time, they are capable of powering other more complicated redstone machines. Regardles ...more
In this article, you will learn how to move your Minecraft save files. This knowledge is very useful if you want to give your friends a copy of your offline world, or play on one of theirs. You can also make backups, or move your offline world to your server folder to play onl ...more
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play with us on our free server. In the past, we've gone over how to improve the architecture of windows, doors, walls and other such structures. In last Saturday's workshop, we looked into some specific te ...more
Getting bored with Minecraft? Looking to spice things up a little? Install the SDK Gun Mod! This gamer's guide presents a complete, step-by-step overview of the process. For complete instructions, watch the video! Love Minecraft? Search WonderHowTo for more Minecraft hacks, c ...more
Yes, this cheat will also work with Minecraft Beta! Hack all the items in your inventory. Get unlimited supplies of diamond or redstone, or make your items impervious to damage. All you need is the most current version of the hacking program Cheat Engine.
The low system requirements of Minecraft make it ideal for playing on an Android smartphone. If you're looking to find out how to download, install, and play Minedroid, a version of Minecraft designed for your Android phone, take a look at this walkthrough and check out the do ...more
In Minecraft, one cool way of getting around those larger fortresses and bases is to set up a minecart. If you're looking for fun or efficient new ways of setting up your minecart station, adding booster carts to make it faster, and adding floor tile switches, check out this v ...more
If you've been around either the multiplayer worlds or have been watching videos on other video websites, you may have noticed that some people have started creating underwater glass structures and buildings in their game! If you're curious how, this video will show you! You w ...more
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our tutorials, post to the community corkboard, and come play on our free server! Weekly Challenge: Week 2 Though Weekly Challenges are not required, they were created in order to help our builders on the server get out of that artistic ...more
WonderHowTo is made up of niche communities called Worlds. If you've yet to join one (or create your own), get a taste below of what's going on in the community. Check in every Wednesday for a roundup of new activities and projects. This week: A New Year's Eve cell phone phot ...more
Minecraft's monsters are so annoyingly tenacious and effective that anyone who plays in survival mode can't help but hate them. That's why we're here to tell you how to kill them! In this tutorial, we'll teach you how to harness a unique property of lava to create blades that ...more
This tutorial shows you several different hex codes you can enter so you can hack your game of Minecraft using the game hacking program Cheat Engine. This uses the most current version of Cheat Engine, so make sure you have 6.0 or better.
A couple of months ago we showed you Foldify, an iOS app that allows you to create your own custom, foldable, 3D papercraft files. Your designs could then be sent to your printer, cut out, and assembled. Video: . Now, 57Digital Ltd has followed the same concept with their new ...more
Want to see your Minecraft creations in real physical form outside of your server? Mineways is a free program for Linux or Windows users that renders all of your Minecraft builds into full color 3D model files. Those files can then be sculpted using your own 3D printer (if yo ...more
Minecraft is unique among computer games in that some users have created such breathtaking works of beauty and ingenuity that it challenges the very idea that Minecraft is even a game at all, but suggests that it is instead a tool for artistic expression much like Photoshop. ...more
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our tutorials, post to the community corkboard, and come play on our free server! Minecraft 1.2.5 has been planned for a few days now, but Jeb wanted to wait for modders to catch up to the new changes. This time around, things should run ...more
Have you ever built a fancy redstone contraption just to find out that it needs those large clunky levers in order to work? Well, have no fear because there is a more complex method for fixing that problem. It is known as a T Flip-Flop and it can be the love of your life. Now, ...more
Minecraft just wouldn't be the same without all of those pesky monsters trying to break into your house and jump on you until you die. But that gets tiring after awhile, and sometimes you just want a safe place to go where you don't have to worry about being eaten, shot, or bl ...more
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our tutorials, post to the community corkboard, and come play on our free server! Weekly Challenge: Week 3 Though these Weekly Challenges are not required, they were created in order to help our builders on the server get out of any arti ...more
With the recent announcement of our server shutting down, it's time to get in and save the things you've made. However, this will work on any CraftBukkit server as well, and gives no extra strain to the server as the work is all done on your local computer. Our server is curr ...more
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our tutorials, post to the community corkboard, and come play on our free server! A moving walkway could be a great addition to a courtyard, airport, or even a mansion. It's very unique and simple to do! If you end up incorporating this t ...more
Minecraft is the ultimate creative tool. Countless worlds filled with fantastic projects have been built to extraordinary scale in single player and SMP. This Saturday, we will be recreating some epic builds and going over things like scaling, design, detail and organization. ...more
Minecraft never ceases to amaze, from programmable pianos to serial killers. But now someone has tackled M. C. Escher's famous Relativity lithograph from 1953 that depicts a world not bound by the normal laws of gravity. It's an amazing puzzle of a three-dimensional world trap ...more
Relays are simple redstone devices that allow you to switch between multiple outputs with only one input. They're incredibly useful in the right situation! There are many different types of relays, but I'll be showing you how to make two. One will switch power back and forth ...more
Three-dimensional printing is one of the many wonders of modern technology. It's the first step towards real life Star Trek replicators and Timeline-esque teleportation chambers. While we aren't at the level of reconstructing strands of DNA, it's already possible to make tons ...more
These days, when people say "gaming", you think of Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Even the Wii. How could you not, with games like Black Ops, Gran Turismo 5 and Wii Sports in every retail store known to man? But if you're the type of gamer who sits in front of the computer screen ...more
A game labeled as 'educational' usually spells its death among hardcore gamers. The educational game genre is mostly intended for children, and games that appeal to children often lack the sort of widespread appeal that makes them commercially successful. Many people play gam ...more
Today, on his Tumblr, Notch shared two very odd—and, to all appearances, completely unrelated—fan-produced Minecraft ads. The first clip, "Diamonds," offers a nod to the game's resource harvesting mechanics. In it, a crazed tween taps a block of diamonds out of a tough guy's ...more
As if just mining and breaking up cobblestone wasn't enough, there's a way to generate an unlimited resource of them just by building a simple machine and using some water and lava. In this video you will learn how to create your own machine that will make an unlimited amount ...more
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. Oh, the power of redstone! But, what good is any technology if it can't be harnessed for killing? Here's a redstone build for the mad scientist in each of us. Building the Death Ma ...more
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. Long ago some smart folks figured out how to make water, lava, and some blocks do the mob killing for them. More recently, with the addition of redstone, these mechanisms for resour ...more
Control is important. Mankind inherently wants to control its environment, which is why we have things like indoor plumbing, electric lights, air conditioning, and more. Likewise, Minecraft has redstone, which is a way for users to control their environment and manipulate it t ...more
Notch loves Halloween. He must, because he keeps putting scarier and scarier things into Minecraft around Halloween time! Today, Minecraft 1.4.2 was released, and it's a doozy. Versions 1.4 and 1.4.1 were actually skipped entirely, as lots of bug-fixes were patched between th ...more
What better way to enjoy the beauty of the blocky world of Minecraft than by flying across the land? If you want to fly in the new release of Minecraft 1.8, take a look at this tutorial on how to download and install the Fly Mod, a part of Zombe's mod pack, with the help of MC ...more
Ever wanted to display text in Minecraft? It's actually not overly difficult. In this tutorial, I will endeavor to guide you through the process between storing and displaying text from memory. To do this, we will examine two different methods of displaying and storing text in ...more
if you've already seen this video and you are playing Minecraft on your own server, you're ready to start playing on custom maps. You can download maps here. Custom maps make playing Minecraft even more fun. Enjoying exploring these new worlds!
So, here we are with the second part to whats going to happen to Minecraft in 1.7 (you can see the first part here). Let's start off with the new biomes. Biomes Roofed Forest: This biome is filled with short trees that are close together, forming a canopy. The trees have 2x2 ...more
WonderHowTo is a how-to website made up of niche communities called Worlds, with topics ranging from Minecraft to science experiments to Scrabble and everything in-between. Check in every Wednesday evening for a roundup of user-run activities and how-to projects from the most ...more
A big part of the fun in Minecraft is figuring out all of the different things that you can craft and how to craft them. Sometimes you just want to make the damn thing though, and to that end this video will show you how to make many of the game's better and more complex to cr ...more
This is a pretty simple how-to, because a doorbell is a pretty simple mechanism! The difficult part is in understanding music note blocks. First of all, here's what a finished, two-tone doorbell looks like: That's seriously all there is to it. There's a button outside your ho ...more
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our tutorials, post to the community corkboard, and come play on our free server! Friday is finally here, and that can only mean one thing... Weekly Staff Choice Awards! Although this was only the first week of the Choice Awards, we had s ...more
So a little while ago we covered BUD switches, but there's only so much you can show in one tutorial. In this tutorial, I'll be showing you how you can use a combination of water and BUD switches to make a mechanical to kinetic power transfer, and then go back again. In case ...more
Among the younger generation, Roblox rivals major titles like Minecraft as one of the most popular online games out there. In fact, it's common to hear children tell new playmates to "friend me in Roblox!" so they can play together online. There's nothing inherently sinister h ...more