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How To: Create a Hidden Piston Door in Minecraft
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How To: Create the Most Compact 2x2 Hidden Piston Door in Under 50 Seconds!
Every once in a while, Minecrafters want to create a simple hidden piston door to secretly hide all their valuable items. Now, it's possible with only 18 redstone, 2 repeaters, 12 sticky pistons, and ONLY 20 blocks of any kind!
How To: An Exhaustive Guide to Using Minecarts in Minecraft
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News: Verticalize Your Minecraft Creations by Transmitting Redstone Power Up and Down
There are a million tutorials on the Internet for how to transmit redstone power up and down, but that's because vertical power transfers are both really important and very counterintuitive. This quick and easy guide should help clear it up!
How To: Use Redstone to Create a Converting Enchantment Table in Minecraft
Are you tired of having to use two different enchanting tables when you want both low and high enchants? Are you sick and tired of hearing your faction/guild/clan members say that they need lower enchants because they don't have enough experience levels for high-end enchants?
How To: Make Buttons Work Like Levers in Minecraft Using a T Flip-Flop
This past weekend's workshop on replacing normal levers with buttons masquerading as levers went really well. Lots of players showed up and everyone had a great time. Most importantly, everyone learned how to make and use a T flip-flop!
News: Brighten Up Your Subterranean Abode in Minecraft—Grow Grass Underground!
Have you often wondered how to brighten up your underground farm or base? Are you depressed when you look in your underground dirt-filled garden to realize that it lacks a certain something? In this tutorial, I will show you a few tips on how to get grass to actually grow underground!
News: Stay at the White House in This Week's Replication Challenge
As most of you already know, the White House is the seat of the Executive branch of government in the United States. Constructed in 1792, it is one of the oldest buildings in the U.S. During the War of 1812, it was burned down and later rebuilt. The White House was inspired by a few foreign government buildings and is somewhat Greek in appearance.
Redstone Logic Gates: Mastering the Fundamental Building Blocks for Creating In-Game Machines
Many people get so discouraged by their failures with redstone that they give up using it entirely, or never progress beyond using simple switches. However, by incorporating logic gates into your redstone designs, the applications are nearly limitless. The ability to add multiple switches to your machines is just a small part of what logic gates can do. Most importantly, they give you control.
How To: Create a Minecart Train Station in Minecraft
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. So you have a deep mine, an epic home, a bountiful farm, and mob traps galore, but have you ever considered linking them together into one cohesive unit? With the use of a minecart train station you can turn your disjointed Minecraft manor into a well oiled machine and cut travel times in half.
How To: Create Secret Staircases with Lever Actuated Trapdoors in Minecraft
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How To: Make Furniture in Minecraft
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How To: Build a Tree Farm in Minecraft for Easy Access to All Types of Wood
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How To: 3 Ways to Lengthen Redstone Pulse Signals with a Simple Pulse Sustainer
We've already done a tutorial explaining why buttons are superior to levers, but now I want to show you a way to make them even more useful than they already are. You can't get this sort of functionality with levers!
How To: Create an Automatic Cobblestone Generator in Minecraft
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. No self-respecting Minecraft house is complete without a state of the art automatic cobblestone generator. But what does the average Minecrafter need with a bunch of cobblestone? To put it simply, sometimes you just need a bunch of blocks. I cannot tell you how many times I have been in the midst of a trap, animal pen, or basement only to find myself short on the second most common block of them all.
How To: Make Pixel Art in Minecraft
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How To: Build a TNT Cannon in Minecraft
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How To: Build a Water Elevator in Minecraft
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. Getting up and down in Minecraft can be extremely time consuming without the assistance of fly mods or speed hacks. If you're a pure player looking for a safe and effective way to travel vertically, why not try the Minecraft water elevator? It's a simple to use device that neither requires neither expert know-how or miles of redstone wiring. It's even faster than many piston elevators.
How To: Terraform Your Minecraft World with Natural-Looking Mountains
Last weekend we had a fun workshop (not the redstone workshop from yesterday) in which a bunch of people got together and built mountains! Well, small mountains, at least. The workshop was only an hour, after all.
How To: Create an Automatic Obsidian Generator in Minecraft
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. Mining obsidian is not only time consuming, but dangerous. Looking for caves with obsidian and risking death by creeper, zombie, or lava just isn't worth it sometimes. Luckily, obsidian can be farmed, just like cobblestone! You'll no longer need to put your life on the line for this most-indestructible of building materials.
News: Minecraft World's Ultimate Survival Guide, Part 1
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News: 20 Tricks You Didn't Know You Could Do in Minecraft
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How To: Make an Invisible, Reusable Trapdoor to Hide Secrets or Char Unsuspecting Cows
There are a few ways to make trapdoors, but out of all of them, this one is my favorite. It's fast, completely hidden, and both opens and closes. This particular trapdoor can be used for a variety of purposes, such as hiding your valuable possessions, having a secret entrance to an underground lair, or maybe even taking care of obnoxious cows. What you'll need to make it are 12 sticky pistons, 8 redstone repeaters, 32 redstone, the switch of your choice, and whatever blocks you want to use to...
How To: An Exhaustive Guide to Building Mob Traps in Minecraft
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How To: Build a Simple Redstone Adding Machine in Minecraft
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. There are many amazing redstone builds, but probably the pinnacle of redstone technology is the redstone calculator. The ability to turn simple game mechanics into a real-life calculator is one of genius, pioneered by some very clever Minecrafters many months ago.
How To: Stack Three Pistons in Minecraft and Become King of the World
Okay, you can't really become the king of the world by stacking three pistons. For that, you have to stack four pistons.
How To: Make an Automatic Minecart System in Minecraft
Summer is over and autumn is here. Serotonin levels are dropping and people don't have the motivation to be outside as much anymore. So we play Minecraft instead. But walking is cumbersome, so we want minecarts. Remembering to carry one in your inventory or placing one on the tracks might be a bit much to ask for, and don't even get me started on bothering to press a button to make it go.
How To: Level Up Fast! How to Gain XP in Minecraft with an Orb-Generating Zombie Farm
Ever wondered how other players can get so much awesome enchanted gear in such little time? Struggling to gain experience orbs and need an efficient way to do so with very few casualties? In this tutorial, we will be going over how to build a quick XP farm with a zombie spawner (though any spawner will do). Setup
How To: Build a Deadly (But Practical) Minecraft Machine Gun
Have you ever felt like you wanted to totally annihilate someone in Minecraft with a machine gun? Yeah, me, too. Thankfully, you can!
How To: Sugar Rush! How to Make an Automatic Sugarcane Farm in Minecraft
This article is dedicated to sugarcane, because we all want more sugarcane in Minecraft. The best way to generate sugar cane is with an automatic reed farm that uses pistons and redstone. The pistons push the canes into the water canal you'll build, then delivers them to the collection point at the end of the canal.
How To: Create a Piston Conveyor Belt in Minecraft
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How To: Create the Smartest Design for a Spiral Staircase (Drop Down in Center)
Did you ever want to have a Free-Fall drop with water at the end inside of a Spiral Staircase? Well, you got it! With a Smart Design. =)
How To: Send Redstone Signals Both Ways with This Two-Way Repeater
If you're at all like me, you constantly get frustrated that repeaters only boost redstone signals in one direction. It's annoying!
Minecraft Melodies: How to Recreate the Zelda Secret Chime
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.
The Fastest Way to the Top: How to Build a Redstone Elevator in Minecraft
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How To: Turn Your Village Electric with This Working Power Line
Follow me To Get New Tutorials Everyday! Want a Built-In Power Line to your own Village or City? Well you came to the right place! Building a Power Line is a simple process. All you need is:
How To: 3 Minecart Station Designs to Get Your Minecraft Railway Rolling
Sometimes the hardest part about getting your minecart rolling is the beginning takeoff. Have you ever started a minecart on a hill, and then tried to jump into it as it started moving, only to fail and watch it slowly dwindle into the distance?
Minecraft Monster Slaying: How to Slice Your Enemies with Deadly Lava Blades
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!
How To: Create Redstone Combinations Locks in Minecraft
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BladeCraft: Bladerunner Recreated in Minecraft
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. Download here.