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News: Want to Play More Minecraft? This Teacher Will Show Your Parents Its Educational Side

A game labeled as 'educational' usually spells its death among hardcore gamers. The educational game genre is mostly intended for children, and games that appeal to children often lack the sort of widespread appeal that makes them commercially successful.

News: Last Minute Staff Choice Entry

Here is my last minute staff choice ( Mon-Fri I think) entry, a giant... well you see. A nice big bridge. With support cables (fences) and guard rails.

News: Hiding Things Is a Breeze with This Simple, Piston-Powered Door

Hey guys! Just an easy design/tutorial of how to make the lowest resource and easiest to build piston door that's great for hallways! Make sure to check out my other videos and suggest other topics/tutorials that you want to see! Have fun and play Minecraft.

News: Give Someone the Minecart Ride of Their Life in This Saturday's Minecraft Workshop

Minecarts are a lot more complicated than they may seem at first. Between regular rails, powered rails, and detector rails, they all have a lot of quirks that can make them hard to use.

News: Nether Arena

News: Super Easy Piston Elevator

Hey all! Just a quick video on a little piston elevator that I made. Compact and easy to make, and I hope you all liked it! You can only watch it from this post/link so make sure to check out my other videos to suggest future posts!

News: Minecraft Super Compact Block Changer

Hey guys! Make sure to check out my other videos for some super and amazing tutorial! This is the most compact block changer I have ever seen! Comment on my videos whatever you want to see a tutorial on! Hope you liked it!

News: Use Analog Redstone Signals to Control Your Machines with the Goldilocks Gate

When you get bored and ordinary boolean logic gates just won't solve your problems, and when AND-gates, OR-gates and XNOR-gates just feel too digital, why not make your redstone contraptions feel a bit more analog?

News: Minecraft toilet - that works!!!

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Staying Ahead of the Curve: Building the Next Great Minecraft Creation

Minecraft is unique among computer games in that some users have created such breathtaking works of beauty and ingenuity that it challenges the very idea that Minecraft is even a game at all, but suggests that it is instead a tool for artistic expression much like Photoshop.

News: Blaze Boss in Minecraft

This is the first boss we are releasing out of a "boss series" coming soon this summer! Using redstone, I think we managed to get the "boss feeling" in minecraft!

News: Hide Your Goods from Even the Most Discerning Thief in This Saturday's Minecraft Workshop

You see before you the humble block: This single, unassuming block couldn't possibly hold anything of value, right?

News: Minecraft Survival Horror

Survive 25 waves of monsters by managing limited supplies and hidden treasures in this map powered by redstone!

News: The first time lapse i have ever done!

What do you think of the build?

News: Show Off Your Minecraft Musical Talent in This Week's Redstone Competition

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Hannover: an Update

Here is a little update for Hannover for you all!

News: Self building village in Minecraft

Today, I made a dirt house... with redstone! This is my self building village, including a self building dirt house as requested :)

Minecraft Skyjacking: It's Terrorists vs. Counterterrorists in This PvP Map

Here's the trailer for the "Skyjacking" Terrorist vs. Counterterrorist map that I built using redstone for bombs, timers and more features, along with the SDK Gun Mod. If you want to give the PvP map a try, you can download it here. The goal is to defuse 3 bombs within 10 minutes! The last bomb has 2 wires; cut one of them to win—they are randomly chosen by redstone...

News: Editable Books and Colorful Wooden Half Slabs in the Minecraft Snapshot 12w17a

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 mess up things badly otherwise. Only download and use this if you know what to do with a minecraft.jar file!

The "Minecraft: DotA" Map: An In-Game Game Based on an In-Game Game

Hello, everyone. My friend and I recently released a Defense of the Ancients (DotA) map that went viral and thought I should share it with Minecraft World on WonderHowTo since you guys helped me out when I first started making videos! We were featured on Kotaku, RockPaperShotgun, Gamespy, The Verge, Joystiq and many more websites!Exciting!You can see the full details below are head straight here for the downloads.

News: Hannover Galley

This is the Galley I made for the Hannover community project, I just had to share it with how well it is actually turning out.

News: Outined for Success!

The Workshop this weekend went of without a hitch! Except that it didn't happen until later at night, The workshop went exceptionally well. Lots of people came out to build in this weeks workshop and here's some nice pictures to help tell the tale!

News: Rock paper scissors

Hey, 10bitable and me(ally132) made rock paper scissors in minecraft, so 10bit made a quick tutorial. We will make a better version but this should do for now. Also check out my channel.

News: Yay my fav mob

Warnings EXTREAMLY EPIC

News: Minecraft Custom Map - Episode 1: The Wooden Room

DucksTheName and I try out a new custom puzzle/adventure map created by CubicDelight! We absolutely love this map, it's my personal favorite out of all the maps we've played in the past.

News: The Highwind (now Entered in for the weekly staff contest)

I know some people thought I should have entered this in the ship contest (It did meet all contest requirements) but Like I said, i was going to enter this weeks contest, in order to give some of my friends a chance at it. But here is a post of the ship anyway

News: Create a Game Inside of a Game for This Week's Minecraft Redstone Competition

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News: Entire Castlevania NES Game Recreated in Minecraft!

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 Minecraft over 37 consecutive days recreating the original Castlevania game—in its entirety!

News: Come Make a Functioning Kitchen in Minecraft This Saturday

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News: Rock-paper-scissors

I've been having this idea to build a redstone-version of rock-paper-scissors but never got around to do it. Building big redstone-contraptions on survival-servers isn't easy and single-player creative mode is a bit silly if you want to build a 2-player redstone-game. :)

News: Trick Your Friends into Setting Off Dangerous Traps in This Week's Redstone Competition

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News: Harness the Hidden Powers of Minecraft's New Block Types This Saturday

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News: My redstone elevators

Hi, my name is Matthew9170 and I would say I am a decent minecraft redstone engineer. I am entering the Elevator Redstone challenge. I have 2 entries on a double plot of land in the opposite corner of the /warp tower.

News: Come Build Us Your Best Minecraft Elevator in Our New Weekly Redstone Competition!

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Minecraft Spa Getaway: Join Us This Saturday to Help Make a Fully Functional Bathroom!

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News: Snakes and Ladders in Minecraft | Multiplayer + CPUs enabled

No mods Supports up to 4 players

Lightning Fast Zigzagging: Build an Airport Moving Walkway in Minecraft

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News: Hide Your Secret Stash with a Completely Invisible Redstone Trigger

Are you looking to hide your chests in a not-so-conspicuous way, but don't know where to start? Do you want to finally have that safe and sacred place to store your diamonds, cake and beloved treasures? This tutorial incorporates this previous week's challenge on transforming houses. If you weren't able to participate in last week's challenge, you will still be able to get a feel for what everyone did!

News: Show off your disguises!

Since you can't take a picture of yourself disguised you will need a buddy to help. NEWDeStRoY1 wanted a picture of his Iron Golem Disguise so I obliged.