How to Play Minecraft: Tips for Beginners
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This is a list of all official Minecraft tutorials located on How to Play Minecraft: Tips for Beginners. All of the YouTube videos are unlisted, meaning they cannot be found without visiting the links provided in the website.
The videos are divided into three sections:
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§ Getting Started | Everything you need to know before you start playing Minecraft. |
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§ For Beginners | Nifty tips and tricks for surviving and creating in the Overworld and beyond. |
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§ Level Up! | For players looking to take their experience to the next dimension. |
Getting Started
Videos to get started in Minecraft.
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| YouTube | How to: Play in Survival or Creative Mode | Ready for a thrilling adventure or eager to express your artistic side? We have you covered, no matter what mood you are in. So, let's dive into the differences between survival and creative mode and see how each shapes your Minecraft world. | Teaches gamemode in Minecraft. |
| YouTube | How to: Use Bedrock Controls | Every great journey begins with a single step. But how does one take the first step? That is the question. In this video, we'll go through the basic controls and keybindings of Minecraft: Bedrock Edition to teach you how to take that first step on your endless adventures into the Overworld. | Teaches player movements, sprinting, navigating inventory, dropping an item, changing controls, and more. |
| YouTube | How to: Craft and Use Different Items | It might not come as such a surprise for some that in a game called Minecraft, there is a whole bunch of stuff you can craft... maybe even an overwhelming amount of stuff. We are here to show you how to make the essentials and how they will help you on your blocky adventure. | Teaches the player crafting mechanics, using tools, and smelting. At first, get wood and craft the crafting table. Get a pickaxe, axe, and shovel. Use furnaces to smelt, and torches to provide light. |
| YouTube | How to: Prepare For the Night | In Minecraft, it's not just the stars that come out at night. Think less twinkle-twinkle and more bitey-bitey. So, it might be better to take a raincheck on that midnight hike and find some shelter. This video will show you how to prepare for your first spooky night in the Overworld. | Teaches the player to prepare for the nighttime by crafting a wooden sword and pickaxe, scavenging for food, and building a shelter. |
| YouTube | How to: Survive the First Night | Slumber parties might be really fun, but not if you bunk with zombies and creepers. So, when night comes, make sure to prevent any unexpected visitors. Let's take a look at how to secure your newly built home and how you can survive the first night. | Teaches the player to survive the night. Block entrances using doors, craft a bed to sleep in the night, and torches to lighten up the interior. Eat food to regenerate health. In the nighttime, you can craft items, organize your inventory, and plan for tomorrow. |
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For beginners
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| YouTube | How to: Build the Basics | Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither will your Minecraft house if you don't know how. So put on your hardhats, because today we will learn the basics of Minecraft construction — the art of turning simple blocks into architectural masterpieces. | You can plan what you build or just let your creativity begin. There are a lot of blocks, all of them have different properties. |
| YouTube | How to: Tame and Breed Animals | Animal lover? The Overworld is filled with furry friends to tame and call your own. Best of all, they won't chew up your shoes as their real-life counterparts! In this video, we will show you how to obtain a little feathered or four-legged companion and how to take care of them. | You can tame wolves, ocelots, horses, and parrots. To tame wolves use bones, for ocelotss use fish, keep mounting horses to tame them. Wheat can be fed to cows and sheep, seeds to chicken, and carrots to pigs to breed them. |
| YouTube | How to: Build a Simple Farm | The person who said, "Your soul is a garden," definitely never knew how frustrating gardening can be if you don't have the know-how... or maybe they did? Nevertheless, it is time to paint those thumbs green because, in this video, we will go through the basics of Minecraft farming. | Farms are essentials to get food. Use a hoe to create farmland nearby water sources. Get seeds by breaking grass or find other crops in different places. Plant them in the farmland to grow them. |
| YouTube | How to: Discover Different Biomes Part 1 | The world of Minecraft is mind-bogglingly large — like really, really, really big. In this video, we will do a quick run-through of the different variations of climates and environments that the Overworld has to offer – let's explore the biomes of Minecraft. | There are a lot of biomes in the Minecraft world. In every biome there are a lot of different resources, as well as different dimensions (The End and the Nether which are accessible through portals.). |
| YouTube | How to: Discover Different Biomes Part 2 | Ready to go beyond green forests and sandy beaches? Well, pack your bags explorers, it is time to discover the more uncharted biomes of the Overworld. From the barren yet colorful badlands to the brutally cold but still breathtakingly beautiful ice spikes, today we will go through the less common biomes you might encounter in your travels. | Mushroom fields contain a lot of mushrooms and there are no hostile mobs. In the Badlands there is terracotta and coal. In Ice Spikes, large amounts of ice spikes will generate. |
Linked articles
- Creative vs. Survival Mode
- How to survive your first night in Minecraft
- How to craft
- How Spawning, Dying, and Respawning Works in Minecraft
- Everything You Need to Know About Health in Minecraft
- Exploring the Overworld in Minecraft
- Everything You Need to Know About Minecraft Mobs
- What is a Minecraft Skin?
Level Up!
Videos to level up in Minecraft.
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| YouTube | How to: Enchant | Does your diamond pickaxe feel just a tad too... meh? Looks like you need an upgrade of the magical kind. So it's time to hit the books because today, we're learning the basics of enchantment and how you can give your gear the glowy power-up they deserve. | Tools can be enchanted using an enchanting table or anvil and repaired using an anvil. |
| YouTube | How to: Build Your First Base | Temporary dirt houses do have their charm... yet, why not take your building to the next level? It is time for you to create a more permanent solution. In this video, we will provide some basic pointers for creating your first base, the rest is up to you and that imaginative head of yours. | Gives advice on how to build a safe shelter. |
| YouTube | How to: Decorate Interiors | Nothing beats unwinding in your humble abode after a long day of adventuring. Yet, your cozy corner might need a little more style to give it that “wow factor”. There are many creative possibilities to make it your own. We'll show you some easy interior decoration tips to transform your home from basic to brilliant. | Gives advice on how to cozily decorate the interior of a shelter. |
| YouTube | How to: Play With Friends and Join Servers | Finding a huge diamond vein is sweet, of course, but maybe the real treasure is the friends we made along the way. So, gather the crew, it is time to join the Minecraft community. In this video, we will show you how to play with others and create a world tailored just for you and your friends.
Want to learn more about Minecraft multiplayer? https://help.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/articles/4410316619533-How-to-Play-Minecraft-Multi player [sic] |
Playing with multiple users is possible through Realms, external servers and splitscreen (Console versions of Bedrock only) |
| YouTube | How to: Use Redstone and Command Blocks Part 1 | Have you always dreamt about tinkering with gadgets? Did you know you can create these in Minecraft? In this video, we will go through the basics of redstone, the element that powers everything from pistons to automatic trap doors. So, get ready to create and play around with the technological marvels of the Overworld! | Redstone signals send power to connected blocks, enabling circuits of any kind. |
| YouTube | How to: Use Redstone and Command Blocks Part 2 | Listen up, future hackers and programmers! Let us introduce you to the command block — the special little box that allows you to bend the Overworld to your will. With it, you can automate tasks, create complex structures, and even control game mechanics with just a few lines of code. | Command blocks can only be obtained by using /give and can be programmed to run commands when powered. |
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