Two wonderful, wonderful things converge! Minecraft Forum's rushone2009 introduces the Bladecraft Project, a melding of Blade Runner and Minecraft. The current texture pack and map downloads contain no adventure or goal, just exploring and discovering movie references. Downloa ...more
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. For last week's Workshop, we decided to attempt to communicate long distance without the use of the chat bar. To accomplish this, we built an elementary redstone pulser that would a ...more
It's September 1st, 1859, and the Earth looks more or less like something out of an apocalyptic movie or Sci-Fi novel. All communications have failed, it's so bright outside at midnight that people are getting up and making breakfast, and people all over the world are seeing a ...more
Replacing your wallpaper is one of the easiest and quickest things you can do to keep your device from going stale, but it goes way beyond just picking an image from your gallery. If you use the Google Camera, you can create some really awesome 3D lens blur backgrounds, but wh ...more
Stop hoofing it! This Minecraft player's guide will teach you everything you need to know to build a minecart station with redstone. For complete instructions, watch the video! Search WonderHowTo for more Minecraft tips, tricks, player guides, glitches and cheats.
Sometimes taking the route where you don't fight at all in Minecraft is the best plan of attack! If you're looking for a clever way to take down almost all types of creatures (well, except for spiders), check out this awesome video! You'll learn how to make a crafty water trap ...more
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our tutorials, post to the community corkboard, and come play on our free server! Hey, it's iDwarf again! I hope you all had fun creating your Rube Goldberg machines last week! But before we show of the winning contraptions from the last ...more
Are you sick to death of waiting around night in Minecraft when you need a certain material from the overworld and can't get it without being killed by monsters? Well, Beta version 1.3 of the game is here to help. Now you can craft a bed! This video will teach you how to craft ...more
You can create a dispenser in Minecraft using redstone, a bow and some cobblestones. This tutorial shows you how to create one, and then demonstrates just what they're good for. Add a button so you can easily use it in Minecraft.
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Technically, INVedit is a program used to edit your inventory when playing MineCraft, and it only works on Windows machines. However, this tutorial shows you a good workaround for you to be able to install and run INVedit on your Mac.
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. Hey Minecraft World, just a reminder that we will be at Minecon this year! It's fast approaching, in just a few hours we'll be talking to modders, builders, YouTubers, developers, m ...more
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. Have you ever fallen victim to a redstone trap? Well, this week's Saturday workshop will give you the confidence you need in order to make your own! This workshop will be centered a ...more
The Minecraft 1.9 prerelease beta has begun. This guide will help walk you through the process of downloading, installing, and upgrading your version of Minecraft to the 1.9 pre-release so that you can try out the new biomes and snow golems for yourself. Download the Minecraf ...more
You can grow grass underground! This quick and easy tutorial shows you how to cultivate an underground lawn. Build a deep staircase down to your chosen piece of land, then follow the rest of the tutorial to make the grass grow!
What happens when you combine Super Mario Land with Minecraft? Maybe some awesome pixel art, but how about if you go a step further? What if you add the computer game within a computer game idea and throw in a little stop motion? You get one hell of an impressive spectacle—yo ...more
Hey everybody, here is my entry for the medieval building contest. I don't actually care if I win, it was just fun to think about. I have this great book series called The History of Private Life which goes into wonderful detail about how people did everyday things throughout ...more
Which came first, Minecraft or the egg? Watch this video to learn how to build a chicken coop in Minecraft that will allow you to automatically harvest eggs. Eggs are an important resource so make sure you've got control over your supply.
Minecraft World user Xhoes is building an epic "Capture the Flag" arena. While still a work in progress, this epic arena boasts two fortresses with flags, obstacles and objects to hide behind in the battle field, and an underground passageway. In Capture the Flag, two teams c ...more
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Sure, you've sailed the oceans and you've explored the nether, but have you been to the farlands yet? The farlands are the area at the very edge of the map of your Minecraft world. Watch this video to learn the coordinates of the farlands and how to get to them.
If your health is high enough, the zombies will never be able to defeat you! This tutorial shows you how you can use Cheat Engine to reprogram your avatar's health score. It's easy, and you can do it as often as you need.
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Have you guys seen this yet? Ben Purdy used projection mapping to create a "real life" Minecraft block. If you don't know what projection mapping is, it works like this: "There’s a piezo element taped to the box and hooked up to an arduino. The arduino senses the physical im ...more
Back in the days of NES and 8-bit gaming, I used to be a huge Castlevania fan. And it looks like I wasn't the only one. However, unlike me, gamer Nick "Nario" Hagman just couldn't let go of his Simon Belmont fascination that easy. Nario recently spent over 100 hours in Minecra ...more
Looks like Minecraft is getting some cool new features, including editable books and colorful wooden half slabs. Check out the video below to see the newest Minecraft Snapshot 12w17a in action. Warning: This release is for experienced users only! It may corrupt your world or m ...more
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Make farming wheat a breeze with an automatic wheat harvester in your Minecraft world. Follow this design and you'll be up to your block head (no offense) in bread. Set up this automatic wheat harvester in your Minecraft world and let it do the work for you.
Youtuber FVDisco has created a fully functioning, redstone, noteblock & piston-driven piano! If that wasn't amazing enough, it's also fully programmable! This video gives us a pre-made song to hear, then walks us through the process of setting up a song from scratch. Take a look!
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Here at WonderHowTo, we've been following the Minecraft LEGO set for quite some time, through its development on LEGO CUUSOO (a LEGO site where users can submit ideas for LEGO sets) to its eventual implementation. Well, I finally got my hands on the finished set, and I have b ...more
In Minecraft, traps provide an easy and safe means of harvesting monster-specific resources. This gamer's guide will walk you through the construction of a simple lava trap. For complete instructions, watch the video! Search WonderHowTo for more Minecraft tips, tricks, player ...more
If you can believe it, there's actually a jukebox in Minecraft, and you can put records in it! Yes, there are records! But how does one acquire such records you ask? Well, it's not easy, but if you can do it, you will be well rewarded! In this video you will learn how to line ...more
Explore a whole new Minecraft world with Industrial Craft. Watch this video to learn how to download and install the Industrial Craft mod for Minecraft beta 1.6.6. The Industrial Craft mod has all kinds of new items for you to enjoy, check it out.
Want to build the ultimate traps in Minecraft? This three part video series shows you the ultimate guide to building unassailable traps within the game. Make sure you have quite a few resources before you begin - you'll need them all! Part 1 of 3 - How to Build the ultimate tr ...more
Having an epic base in Minecraft is one thing, having an epic moat, much more awesome. But let's up the stakes, a moat that also doubles as a way of killing those nasty zombis, spiders, creepers and more and then transports all their loot right into a little holding area that ...more
Games like Minecraft and Braid have proven that there is money to be made in the indie game marketplace, which means more and more designers are following suit, one being Zeboyd Games. The two-man indie design team released two excellent JRPG spoofs on the Xbox Live Indie Game ...more
Minecraft presents a vast, seemingly never ending landscape for exploration. How do you cover all of that ground? This video will show you how to build a train station, including a minecart call button and automating station. Watch this video to learn how to make a minecart tr ...more
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You can personalize not only your avatar in Minecraft, you can also create custom skins for the monsters and animals as well. This tutorial shows you how to create these custom skins using Adobe Photoshop (though it will probably work for other graphics programs as well).
In earlier versions of Minecraft, Ender Pearls only allowed you to scare off Enderman. Thankfully, Minecraft 1.9 has introduced new functionality to those pearls--the ability to teleport around the map by tossing them in a direction. Take a look at this guide to learn how to t ...more
Watch this video to learn how to build a minecart station in your Minecraft world. This video will show you the right design to follow and the proper materials to use to craft a multi-directional minecart station in Minecraft beta.
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play with us on our free server. Every once in a while you've got to challenge yourself and there's certainly no better time to do so than the week of Minecon. For this week's workshop we'll be rebuilding t ...more
Bring a little bit of the excitement of Las Vegas to your Minecraft world. Watch this video to learn how to build a working slot machine, based on a random number generator, in your Minecraft map. Luck be a mob tonight. Part 1 of 2 - How to Build a working slot machine in Mine ...more
Today, I made a dirt house... with redstone! This is my self building village, including a self building dirt house as requested :) If you have any more requests, leave a comment below! Texture Pack: Sphax PureBDCraft 512x Shaders: OPTIFINE? HD and Sonic Ether's Unbelievable ...more
In Minecraft, traps provide an easy and safe means of harvesting monster-specific resources. This gamer's guide will walk you through the construction of such a trap. For complete instructions, watch the video! Search WonderHowTo for more Minecraft tips, tricks, player guides ...more
So I couldn't help but notice that a lot of the hidden base designs in minecraft are cliche and obvious, the two I am about to show you would never be found legitimately unless someone saw your name through the ground or followed you. I don't know what the official name for m ...more
I should start off by saying that this technique is of no real practical value, because this process is far more time-consuming than simply just manually trimming trees to meet your specifications. That said, it's an awful lot of fun to play with! This takes advantage of the ...more
Video: . This video shows you how to use as much tnt as you want in minecraft, without cheats!
This is a clever little exploit that you can use in Minecraft that shows you how to use correctly positioned gravel to take advantage of a glitch in the programming. Use this to be able to tell where there are caves and lava!
Both animals and monsters produce things you need in Minecraft. This tutorial shows you how to build a farm that will spawn animals during the day and monsters at night, so you can accumulate more of everything that you need!
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Since the dawn of Minecraft, Minecraft playing gamers have dreamed of flying through the skies. Now, the dream has come true. Watch this video to learn how to build a TNT powered person launching cannon. Strap yourself in and enjoy the ride.
Redstone is a pretty versatile substance in Minecraft. You can use it to rig up explosions, set timers and conduct electricity to open doors and make traps. This tutorial is a basic primer on everything redstone you can find in Minecraft.
Reddit user Mr. Squishy recreated the entire Game Boy Pokémon Red Version game in Vanilla Minecraft, i.e., a Minecraft server without gameplay modifications. Instead of using mods, he used 357,000 commands blocks—blocks that execute commands in the popular sandbox game. How lo ...more
Courtesy of Toby and David of the mcspotlights channel. Video: . On another note, MERRY CHRISTMAS! Hope everyone's doing great!
I've had this idea in my head for almost a year now. I knew what I wanted to do, but wasn't sure if it would work. After a long time of armchair-engineering, I decided that the best way to test my idea was with a soldering iron and a screwdriver. Video: . Impressive? :) Guess ...more
While building your fortress in Minecraft you might have thought about doing some work with water. Sure, you could just build a moat, but what's cooler than making your own water loops!? Line them up with each other and watch them cycle water among one another in a very cool w ...more
The Millenaire mod allows you to have NPCs in your game while playing Minecraft. If you have Minecraft 1.8.1, you can also take a look at this guide on how to install the Millenaire mod so that you can interact with your own NPCs in Minecraft! Download the Millenaire Mod