Minecraft for Dummies

Minecraft for Dummies - For Dummies

Portable edition

Paperback (12 Apr 2013)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Learn to:

  • Use blocks to build anything you can imagine
  • Protect what you´ve built from monsters
  • Survive, mine, and go on adventures in the Minecraft world
  • Customize your experience

Get started in Minecraft or go deeper this book helps you do both

Playing Minecraft is an intriguing, creative experience. If you´ve been curious and want to get started, this book shows you the ropes. And if you know the basics but long to become a mad scientist or venture into Hardcore mode, you´ll find out how to do that too. Learn to play Minecraft and enjoy endless entertainment!

  • Enter the game purchase and download Minecraft and register your account
  • Create your world build your Minecraft world and explore it in a single-player game
  • Learn to survive find out how to create a shelter, avoid hunger, start a farm, and begin mining
  • Refine your skills study the different types of blocks and learn to engineer with redstone circuits
  • Visit the villages where you can trade, excavate valuable structures, and battle zombies
  • Move up to new gameplay options venture into Adventure and Hardcore play and manage the Minecraft filesystem

Open the book and find:

  • How to survive your first night in Minecraft
  • What to monitor as you play
  • Tips for building an effective house
  • Necessary mining tools
  • The physics of the game
  • How to start and join a LAN server
  • Ten useful gameplay tips

Book information

ISBN: 9781118537145
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons
Pub date:
Edition: Portable edition
DEWEY: 793.932
DEWEY edition: 23
Number of pages: 160
Weight: 266g
Height: 217mm
Width: 143mm
Spine width: 10mm