Minecraft recipes for dummies

✍ Scribed by Stay, Jesse; Stay, Thomas

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 227
• Series: -For dummies
• Edition: Portable edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A quick, handy reference on Minecraft recipes

Want to find resources, make a shelter, craft tools, armor, and weapons, and protect yourself from monsters with Minecraft recipes? You've come to the right place! In a handy, portable edition that's packed with step-by-step instructions, Minecraft Recipes For Dummies makes it easy to look up the required items and figure out which blocks you need to gather to create each item. You'll get recipes for weapons, armor, transportation, mechanism, food, dye, wool, and brewing, as well as information on enchanting, repairing, gathering, farming, efficiency, and more.

Minecraft is more than just a game: it's an obsession. It has gone from an obscure game with a cult-like following to a mainstream phenomenon. Minecraft consists of players using an avatar to create or destroy various types of blocks, form fantastic structures, create artwork, and much more, all in a three-dimensional environment and across various multiplayer servers in multiple game modes. With this fun and friendly guide, you'll get quick and easy access to Minecraft recipes to enhance your game and get even more out of this popular, addictive game.

• Shows you which blocks you'll need to gather to create shelter, tools, armor, weapons, and more
• Makes it easier for both beginner and advanced Minecraft players to make the most of the game
• Playing the game teaches users basic programming skills and engineering concepts
• The author's sons—both avid Minecraft players and bloggers—contributed to the writing of this book

Minecraft Recipes For Dummies is the portable guide that goes where you go as you create a world you'll never want to leave.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents at a Glance
Table of Contents
Introduction
About This Book
Foolish Assumptions
Icons Used in This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
Where to Go from Here
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Recipes
Devising a Game Plan
Using the Inventory
Manipulating the Inventory
Setting Up for Your First Night
Harvesting trees with your fists
Creating wooden planks
Building the crafting table
Storing items in a chest
Erecting a shelter and door
Getting through the night on a bed
Shape Crafting versus Shapeless Crafting
Crafting Tools. Starting with a stickLighting the way with a torch
Mining stone and ore with a pickaxe
Smelting with the furnace
Digging dirt with a shovel
Chopping trees with the ax
Tilling ground with a hoe
Chapter 2: Defending Yourself
Creating a Sword
Stringing Your Bow
Crafting an Arrow
Protecting Yourself with Armor
Leather
Donning your helmet
Pounding your chestplate
Putting on leggings
Walking in boots
Armor Stand
Chapter 3: Advancing By Way of Farming and Mining
Harvesting and Farming Food Items
Crafting seeds from melons
Crafting blocks to store melons
Farming pumpkin seeds. Feeding your sugar toothMaking bread, cake, and cookies
Making pumpkin pie
Brewing mushroom stew
Making wheat and hay bales
Making the golden carrot
Crafting golden apples
Retrieving the enchanted golden apple
Making beetroot soup
Cooking rabbit stew
Smelting Food
Building Utensils
Building a fishing rod
Creating a bucket
Building bowls
Crafting shears
Building fences
Making a fence gate
Building cobblestone walls
Building a nether brick fence
Taking the lead
Mining Ore
Smelting Ore into Ingot
Smelting an iron ingot
Making gold ingots
Burning charcoal. Crafting Blocks of MineralsCrafting coal blocks
Making diamond blocks and emerald blocks
Producing gold blocks and nuggets
Crafting lapis lazuli blocks
Making redstone blocks
Producing iron blocks
Nether Quartz
Chapter 4: Advancing through Engineering
Discovering Fire
Crafting and lighting TNT
Creating fire with flint and steel
Building a fire charge
Creating Transportation
Dangling a carrot on a stick
Rowing your boat
Working on the railroad
Constructing a powered rail
Building a detector rail
Activating the activator rail
Riding the minecart
Building storage minecarts. Making a minecart with a furnaceCrafting a minecart with hopper
Exploding your way through a minecart with TNT
Engineering with Redstone
Pressing the button
Crafting pressure plates
Upgrading to weighted pressure plates
Constructing trapdoors
Securing the proximity with a tripwire hook
Protecting your inventory with a trapped chest
Turning on items with a lever
Dropping inventory through the dispenser
Building a dropper
Picking up items with a hopper
Pushing items remotely with a piston
Constructing a sticky piston
Detecting light with a daylight sensor.

✦ Subjects

Minecraft (Game) -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.;Video games -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.;Minecraft (Game);Video games.;GAMES -- Board.