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News: Just a Quick Picture

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How To: Save Your Minecraft Creations in Multiplayer Worlds

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.

Minecraft: Pi Edition, Coming Soon to a Raspberry Pi Near You

Yes, that's right. Apparently, you don't have to play Minecraft on your computer or mobile device anymore. Mojang recently created a port of the Minecraft: Pocket Edition that they're calling Minecraft: Pi Edition.

News: The Ultimate Minecraft "Pretty Scary" Update Guide: Everything You Need to Know About 1.4.2

Notch loves Halloween. He must, because he keeps putting scarier and scarier things into Minecraft around Halloween time!

News: Mount Falcon Manor House in Minecraft

Our Minecraft reproduction of the Mount Falcon Manor House in Ballina Ireland. The mansion has a basement, first floor, second floor, and an attic. So far, only the second floor has been (somewhat) finished. We also made a small sewer tunnel that connects to the basement. The mansion is being built as part of a set for a minecraft mini-series we will be filming.

News: MINECRAFT PIXEL ART

Here's a timelapse of Pixel art that we made in Minecraft. 4 hours of footage sped up to 2 and a half minutes! Enjoy :)

News: Chicken Warfare (Dubstep Version)

This is a modified version of our Chicken Warfare video with the song Ruffneck Bass by Skrillex. It still tells the same story, but some parts are a bit different.

Team Fortress 2 in Minecraft: Dustbowl

Video: . This map requires the 12w37a snapshot or better, and you must turn on command blocks to use it.

News: Hannover

Finally, after about 7 months (off and on) The Free City of Hannover is finally finished. Video: .

How To: Make a Resource Friendly Floating Block Trap in Minecraft

I saw Maro post about a trap on YouTube today, so I thought I'd post one here that I just invented. Since we are friendly at WonderHowTo, the TNT has been replaced with a note block. Step 1: Bait

News: Chicken Warfare (Silent Minecraft Short Film)

This is a short Minecraft film we made about a guy who gets revenge on his killer in an unusual way.

"Breaking" News: How to Crack Simple Combination Locks in Minecraft

Combination locks in Minecraft can be really simple or frustratingly difficult, but no matter how complicated they are, some of them fall victim to the same simple exploits.

How To: Build a Piston-Train Tug-O-War Game in Minecraft 1.3.

Getting two sticky-pistons to pull eachother, a piston-train, isn't anything new but the pistons and their timing in 1.3 are and there has been alot of QQ-ing on the Minecraft-forums about how bad they are and that Jeb should bring back the old pistons we all know. I, for one, not only welcome out new 1.3-pistons but have also made a small mini-game out of them. A two-player tug-o-war. The players stand on the diamond or emerald area and press a button to make the piston-train take one step t...

News: Construction on the Star Destroyer

Hey guys, corndog97 here! As most of you know I have been working on an extensive mega build with my friends Knight Skelly, Killer Oliver, and HUD (howcanudothis). I have to say, my mates have done such a good job, and picked up the pattern within an hour. Here's what it looks like so far: As you can see on the lower part of the screen Skelly threw in a cool little mini model of an average Star Destroyer. The ship model we are currently building is a Super-Class, such as Darth Sidious' or Pal...

News: Jango Fett Slave 1 for Weekly Challenge!

Hello! This is the Slave 1 from Star Wars (Jango Fett's ship) for the Space Weekly Challenge! This is a view from the font (hopefully there will be more asteroids)! View from the left. View from the back. View from the right. And a way to get inside! Enjoy!

How To: Make Your Minecart Stations Better Than Ever in Minecraft 1.3

What's nice about Minecraft 1.3 is that it makes minecart stations so simple. Before, you needed redstone and buttons and powered rails in order to make a good minecart station. Now you hardly need anything at all! That said, if you want to be snazzy, all of the minecart stations we covered in this earlier article are still completely functional. You may also want to check out this article on how to make empty minecarts come back to you, if you want some extra bells and whistles.

Minecraft Survival Lesson: Join Us This Saturday for Some Innovative Tripwire Trap Building

Out of all of the new features in Minecraft 1.3, tripwires are undoubtedly the most fun to play with. They provide an entirely new functionality that's still being innovated and discovered.

How To: Bend and Shape Trees However You Want in Minecraft

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!

Minecraft Monster Slaying: How to Shred Hostiles with an Automatic Machine Gun

Sometimes you just want to kill a whole bunch of things at once, or to paraphrase Samuel L. Jackson in Jackie Brown, sometimes you absolutely, positively got to kill every mob in the room. Well, the automatic machine gun is the way to do it; accept no substitutes!

News: Bend and Shape Trees However You Want in This Saturday's Minecraft Workshop on Tree Molding

Trees can be annoying in Minecraft, because they're organic and grow in unpredictable ways. But there are a few techniques for controlling how trees grow so that you can have a forest that looks exactly like you want it to! Come join us at our workshop this Saturday and we'll show you how to make trees grow how you'd like them to! Then you can compete to see who can make the coolest tree! Workshops are held on our server, mc.wonderhowto.com, every Saturday at 12:01 pm PST (3:01 pm EST). I hop...

How To: Harness the Power of BUD Switches to Hide Your Minecraft Machines

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.

How To: Why Walk When You've Got Pistons? How to Make a Minecraft Travelator

A travelator, also known as a moving walkway or moving sidewalk, seems like a tricky thing to build in Minecraft, especially when it's zigzagging, but there are really simple autowalks out there (like this one).

News: Almost Instant Wire Using Trip Wire. Infinitely Expandable and Efficient.

So I've been pretty busy with uni lately, but this was something I'd thought about a lot and I came up with a way to send an infinitely expandable chain of redstone with trip wires. Let me know what you think.

How To: Build a Deadly Roof Lever Trap in Minecraft

This is a cool little trap that me and some friends came up with while messing around with TNT and redstone on a big platform in the sky. The reason we called it the 'Roof Lever Trap' is because it utilizes the ability to place levers on the bottom side of blocks, which was introduced in Minecraft 1.3.1.

How To: Make a 4 Input XOR-Gate in Minecraft

The most complicated logic-gate to build in Minecraft is the XOR-gate. (Well, actually it is the XNOR but it is just a XOR with a NOT at the end.)

How To: Create the Fastest, Most Efficient Way of Travel - 50 Blocks a Second

Many Minecrafters think that Minecart Traveling with many rails is the fastest (most efficient) way of travel. They are wrong. There is one other way of traveling with carts on rails, Forward, Backward, and Upward. And it can take you places up to 6X Faster than the traditional Minecart Design, and, its just as simple to make.

News: Befriend a New "BUD" in This Saturday's Minecraft Workshop

BUD switches (short for Block Update Detector) can be triggered without levers, buttons, tripwires, or any other traditional switches. Instead, they're triggered by changes in block status. That is, placing a block, destroying a block, hoeing grass, clearing snow, etc.

News: The Tetracontrahedron

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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?

News: Obsidian Defenders (1.3.1 PvP Map)

The main objective is to defend your Obsidian temple while attempting to destroy the opponents. To do so a pickaxe will spawn 3m after you begin and every 3 minutes after that in the temple in the centre jungle.

News: We're Making a Cake-Powered Autowalk in This Saturday's Minecraft Workshop

Okay, it's not actually cake-powered, but it does use cake! Owing to the fact that cake and trapdoors are less than half a block tall, we can use fenceposts (which are a block and a half tall) attached to pistons to push people along, because the tops of the fenceposts will invisibly pop up through cake and trapdoors.

Sky Metropolis: Mgabrys's Zeppelin City Takes Home This Week's Staff Choice Award

Our server is primarily a fun server, so we don't often get huge, epic builds of amazingness. And yet that's exactly what we've got with Mgabrys's build, the Portland. Or, more specifically, Zeppelin City OR-2019 "Portland".

News: Final Update for Capture the Flag Prior to Release! It's Almost Done!!

Yes! soon I will be able to log in more as I untie the shackles this map has placed on me in the time leading up to its eventual release and log in once in a while!

Changing Spawn Points: The Minecraft Death Elevator

First of all, this was not invented by me. I state this clearly and the link for the original discussion is located below. I made this video, as the original author did not do so, in an attempt to raise awareness as to the awesome concept that it is.

Advanced Redstone Explained: Why You Need to Use Monostable Circuits

If you're like me, the words 'monostable circuit' mean nothing to you. Until just recently, I had no idea what a monostable circuit did, or why anyone would ever need to use one.

News: Awesome Minecraft-Inspired Animal Art

A friend of mine sent me a link to the work of Laura Bifano, and I was totally blown away. She has a whole gallery of Minecraft-inspired art of various animals, and it's just the coolest thing in the world! Check out this one, small example: I don't want to repost all of them here, because you should definitely go check them out at her gallery. However, if anyone wants to make any (or all) of these for our current Mythical Creatures challenge, I'll allow it!

News: Get Your Minecart Railway Rolling in This Saturday's Minecraft Workshop

The hardest part of starting a minecart railroad in Minecraft is getting it started. Anyone can lay some track in a circle, but what's the best way to stop and start your cart? In this Saturday's workshop, we'll be covering a variety of designs for minecart "train stations", so to speak, that effectively stop and start your minecarts.

Portland : Zeppelin City One

You knew it was coming - and it's finally here. After 2.5+ months, my solo build aka : "Zeppelin City One" is complete. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but this thing is large enough for a video. Special thanks to Pmag and Ping for helping throw switches and set day / night during the video "shoot". Also included an assortment of in-build photos plus the source image that the Airship started from.

PvP Arena: Elven Ruins

Here's a small-medium sized PvP arena that I made with my friend a few days back on my personal bukkit server.

News: Minecraft Wave Heroes

A minigame we built with redstone! Video: .