Minecraft Features
How To: Make the Simplest Invisible Door Ever in Minecraft
This design is super simple and is the easiest invisible door that I've ever seen. Unlike designs that use horizontal pistons, the redstone here is completely hidden underground, and the door itself doesn't create an unsightly dip or gap in the wall.
The Fastest Way to the Top: How to Build a Redstone Elevator in Minecraft
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News: 20 Tricks You Didn't Know You Could Do in Minecraft
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How To: Download and Install Minecraft 1.9 Version 3 Pre-Release
UPDATE: Minecraft 1.9.5 Has Been Leaked! Get it Here. You heard right. This one is hot off the presses! Last night, Notch promised a 1.9 Version 3 Update and here it is!
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.
How To: Make an Arched Roof in Minecraft
This week, I will be covering one of my favorite styles of roofing in Minecraft—the arched roof. This is basically just a roof that starts out steep and slowly slopes down until it meets in the center. I think this type of roof looks great in Elvish-styled buildings and can make any build look very elegant and tall.
How To: Build a Sexy Floating Island
Hey guys, I was building my floating island earlier today (and having a quick look at the competition) and I came up with a couple of hints and tips that will really improve your islands.
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: Switch Between Multiple Outputs with a One-Button Redstone Relay in Minecraft
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!
How To: Obliterate Your Minecraft Enemies: How to Build a TNT Cannon
Have you always wondered how to make a customizable and efficient TNT cannon in Minecraft? Are you looking to raid some bases on a PVP/factions/griefing server, but don't know where to start? Well, this tutorial will go over how to make a TNT cannon, and the different ways you can customize it to your liking.
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.)
News: Medieval peasant house
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.
How To: Make and Use ABBA Switches to Turn Your Redstone Around
In last Saturday's workshop, the tutorial was on the ABBA switch, so named because it fires redstone pulses in A-B-B-A order. While the turnout was low, it was a really productive workshop! We experimented with a lot of things and had a great time. Hopefully you'll consider joining us next time!
How To: Build a T Flip-Flop in Minecraft
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, the version I'm showing you is compact and doesn't use pistons, which lag the server to no ends. Here we go.
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: Install Forge for Minecraft 1.7.10
To play Minecraft with mods you will need to install Forge. Most people think this is hard to do, not so. It is very simple and in less than 5 minutes you can be playing Modded Minecraft.
How To: An Exhaustive Guide to Mining and Resource Collection in Minecraft
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. While mining is a basic aspect of Minecraft, it is often overlooked. Every adventure requires iron and diamonds and other ore and if you're playing in hardcore mode then you need all the help you can get.
How To: PvP Like a Pro
Have you ever been called a "noob" or "eZ" after some person kills you? have you ever said "you hack" or "you suck" after getting your butt kicked by another player? this wont ever have to happen again. It is actually possible to be very good at PvP in Minecraft, and you can also be good at it. Now, it is your turn to win in every battle you fight in Minecraft PvP.
How To: Minecraft World's Exhaustive Guide to Food Farming
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. One of the newest features to be added to Minecraft is the hunger bar. Since the final 1.8 update, players go hungry over time if they don't replenish themselves. Hunger is also determined by the level of activity, meaning the more you run about or kill monsters, the hungrier your character becomes.
How To: Build a Hidden Drawbridge with Redstone in Minecraft
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How To: Hide a Secret Chest Inside of a Block and Keep Thieves Away for Good!
Only a few people turned out for last week's workshop on Saturday, but they were all interested in learning this technique for hiding secret stashes with ordinary blocks. After that was covered, we even went on to teach each other different designs afterward! It was a great learning experience for everyone who attended, so consider joining us next week!
How To: Install OptiFine for Minecraft
OptiFine have released a stand alone .jar file that lets you play Minecraft with all the benefits of OptiFine. It is still in test stages so some features are missing but they are being added and worked on. Follow this tutorial to on how to install OptiFine for Minecraft
How To: Create an Automatic Animal Harvester in Minecraft
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. Harvesting items from animals no longer requires wasting precious time chasing after them. During last Saturday's Weekly Workshop, we built a few different kinds of animal harvesters that worked in different ways, but for this guide we will be building the most compact and easy to use harvesters we made over the weekend.
Minecraft 1.7: What's New (Biomes & Fishing)
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.
How To: Use the Minecraft World Editing Software VoxelSniper
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How To: Create a Redstone Sorting Machine in Minecraft
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. A redstone sorting machine can not only cure a cluttered unmanageable Minecraft home, but make for an integral part of an efficient work space. With the redstone sorting machine, your items can arrive at the mere press of a button.
How To: Create a Piston Conveyor Belt in Minecraft
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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: The 3 Best Tripwire Traps in Minecraft (And How to Build Them)
Tripwires are a new mechanic released in Minecraft 1.3, and people are still trying to figure out how best to use them. Minecart returns are a great idea, but what about traps?
How To: Create Redstone Combinations Locks in Minecraft
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How To: Know When Your Minecraft Guests Arrive with This Redstone Doorbell
This is a pretty simple how-to, because a doorbell is a pretty simple mechanism! The difficult part is in understanding music note blocks.
How To: Use Tripwires to Easily Make Empty Minecarts Come Back to You
You know how sometimes you accidentally send a minecart shooting out down your tracks, and you can only watch helplessly as it fades into the distance? And then you know that you have to go find it and break it, so that it doesn't stop up your cart traffic on your tracks.
How To: A Simple Guide to Using Redstone in Minecraft
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play on our free server. As we all know, redstone can be a very useful tool for make basic things in Minecraft more complex and intricate. For beginners to redstone, today's article will give you a basic understanding of how it functions, as well as its many uses.
How To: Create Secret Staircases with Lever Actuated Trapdoors in Minecraft
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How To: Create Beautiful Houses in Minecraft, Part 2
Part 2 Welcome back! In my last post I talked about the exterior aspects and techniques of building a great looking house, and now we shall focus on the interiors.
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?
How To: Fold a Simple Minecraft Creeper
In this origami guide, you will learn how to fold a Creeper from just two sheets of paper. This model is easy and can be done in only ten minutes! This is what the origami Creeper looks like.
How To: Create Beautiful, Aesthetic Houses in Minecraft - Part 1
Aesthetic Houses: What are they? If you've played Minecraft for some time now, you most surely know how hard it is to build a great looking house to live in, that meets both your vision of your dream house and expectations for functionality. This brings us to the definition: in terms of Minecraft, its a structure that dosen't compromise beauty and appeal for functionality.
News: 10 Tips for Taking Your Minecraft Interior Design Skills to the Next Level
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How To: Create an Epic Build in Minecraft
Minecraft is not just a game. It is a creative tool. Over the past year and a half countless epic builds, servers, and community projects have been undertaken. I'm sure some of you have seen the one-to-one scale recreation of the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek or the epic server Godcraft. Countless projects such as these are being worked on as we speak, and they serve to inspire us all.