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Minecraft For Dummies

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von: Jesse Stay, Thomas Stay, Jacob Cordeiro
17,99 €
Verlag:	Wiley
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	29.12.2014
ISBN/EAN:	9781118968253
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	384

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Don't be a Minecraft tourist – get expert tips and advice in this full-color primer Minecraft For Dummies is the complete guide to playing within the Minecraft world. With easy-to-follow guidance from a team of Minecraft experts, you'll develop programming and engineering skills as you build amazing creations using in-game blocks and mechanical devices. Whether you prefer the PC, console, or portable platform, this helpful guide will walk you through the process of setting up and beginning gameplay, and engage with other users from all around the globe. With this trusty guidebook in hand, you'll navigate the infinite world of Minecraft with confidence, skills, and a storehouse of expert advice. Minecraft is the sandbox construction game that has become a mainstream phenomenon with over a hundred million players. A virtually infinite world and versatile style of play offer endless possibilities for both the hardcore gamer and the total noob, and Minecraft For Dummies shows you everything you need to know before you break your first block. <ul> <li>Choose your platform, download the game, and play in all three modes</li> <li>Gather resources, place and break blocks, and use circuits and logic gates</li> <li>Defend your creations against spiders, skeletons, zombies, and the Creeper</li> <li>Travel across the biomes and defeat the enderdragon to win the game</li> </ul> Whether you play to win or just like to explore, there is a style of Minecraft that will spark your imagination. Create or destroy, make war or peace, attack or defend – the game is whatever you want it to be. If you're ready to leave your mark on this digital universe, Minecraft For Dummies is the primer you need to get up to speed.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1 About This Book 2 Conventions Used in This Book 2 Foolish Assumptions 3 How This Book Is Organized 3 Part I: Getting Started with Minecraft 3 Part II: Learning Basic Survival Skills 3 Part III: Developing Advanced Skills 4 Part IV: Customizing Minecraft 4 Part V: Making Minecraft a Family Affair 4 Part VI: The Part of Tens 4 Icons Used in This Book 4 Beyond the Book 5 Part I: Getting Started with Minecraft 7 Chapter 1: Entering Minecraft 9 Getting to Know Minecraft 9 Registering a Minecraft Account 10 Purchasing and Installing Minecraft 11 Playing the Game 12 Logging in and operating the main menu 12 Starting your fi rst game in SinglePlayer mode 13 Understanding basic controls 14 Watching the Heads-Up Display (HUD) 17 Minecraft PE 18 Purchasing PE 19 Starting PE 19 Understanding the Heads-Up Display (HUD) for PE 22 Chapter 2: Surviving the First Night 25 Preparing for Your First Night 25 Devising a game plan 26 Using the inventory 27 Manipulating the inventory 28 Setting Up for Your First Night 29 Harvesting trees 29 Building a crafting table and shelter 30 Making sticks and wooden tools 33 Completing Optional Day One Activities 35 Constructing a chest 35 Mining cobblestone and coal 36 Building a bed 37 Surviving the Night 38 Switching from Peaceful mode to Easy mode to Normal mode 39 Surviving the first night: Three strategies to light the way 40 Surviving the Night 44 Implementing a Minecraft PE strategy for surviving the night 45 Part II: Learning the Basic Skills 47 Chapter 3: Surviving Hunger 49 Understanding and Avoiding Hunger 49 Finding food 50 Eating food 54 Saturation: Making the most of your food 55 Limiting exhaustion 57 Understanding Minecraft PE and Food 58 Attacking and Defending 58 Making Weapons 59 Wielding swords 59 Stringing the bow 59 Protecting Yourself with Armor 60 Wearing leather 62 Donning the helmet 63 Pounding the chestplate 63 Putting on leggings 63 Walking in your boots 63 Storing armor 63 Chapter 4: Discovering Blocks and Items 65 Starting In the Wooden Age 65 Making It Through the Looting Age 70 Surviving the Stone Age 74 Using the Furnace 76 Using the Stonecutter with Minecraft PE 79 Building an Effective House 79 Moving from Effective Houses to Bases 80 Part III: Mastering Techniques 83 Chapter 5: Understanding Biomes and Mastering Farms 85 Knowing Your Biomes 86 Generating worlds 86 Growing flowers 86 Playing in snowy biomes 86 Chilling in cold biomes 87 Living in medium biomes 89 Roasting in warm biomes 93 Exploring in neutral biomes 95 Building the Perfect Farm 96 Growing crops 96 Knowing the basic plants 99 Farming animals 102 Growing mushrooms 102 Knowing the PE Farming Differences 104 Examining Different Types of Mobs 104 Living with docile mobs 105 Protecting yourself from hostile mobs 107 Ignoring neutral and allied mobs 111 Raising pets 113 Playing with PE mobs 114 Chapter 6: Mastering Mines 115 Mining Efficiently 115 Cave mining 115 Digging into branch mining 117 Stepping into staircase mining 121 Building a quarry 122 Ripping into strip mining 123 Rushing into speed mining 124 PE Mining: Random Mining 124 Chapter 7: Increasing Resources through Villages and Excavation 125 Trading in Villages 125 Exploring village features 126 Trading with emeralds 127 Surviving zombie sieges 129 Exploring PE Villages 131 Excavating Structures 132 Excavating a Desert temple 132 Finding jungle temples 133 Breaking into a dungeon 134 Invading the witch hut 134 Exploring an abandoned mine shaft 135 Finding a Stronghold 136 Exploring the nether fortress 137 Discovering ocean monuments 137 Understanding Minecraft PE Excavation 138 Chapter 8: Developing Redstone 139 Playing in Creative Mode 139 Understanding Redstone Basics 141 Transmitting power with redstone wire 142 Using other redstone mechanisms 143 Applying redstone circuits 151 Advanced redstone circuitry 152 Counting Minecraft Ticks 159 Activating Command Blocks 160 Creating Self-Sustaining Farms 160 Chapter 9: Progressing Through the Later Block Ages 163 Exploring the Iron Age 163 Using Tools of the Iron Age 163 Playing with fl uid dynamics 166 Entering the Agricultural Age 168 Reaping the Benefi ts of the Age of Wealth 169 Finding the Nether and End 175 Coloring with dyes 179 Finding the Fun Stuff 180 Starting Big Projects 183 Farming hostile mobs 183 Farming golems 185 Exploring the block ages in Minecraft PE 187 Building Transportation Systems 188 Building boats 188 Riding pigs and horses 188 Transporting by way of minecarts 190 PE Transportation 191 Securing Your Base 191 Chapter 10: Powering Up 193 Enchanting Weapons, Tools, and Armor 193 Enchanting an item 194 Using enchantments 196 Repairing things on the anvil 198 Brewing Potions 201 Brewing basic potions 201 Using potions 203 Modifying potions 204 Brewing negative potions 204 Brewing splash potions 206 Reverting potions 206 Brewing order 206 Fighting witches and potions 206 Building the Beacon 207 Chapter 11: Advancing to the Nether, the End, and Beyond 213 Reaching the Nether 213 Building a portal 213 Surviving the Nether 215 Finding the Stronghold 217 Playing PE Minecraft — the Nether 218 Conquering the End 219 Staying busy in the afterglow of completing The End 221 Surviving Hardcore Mode 222 Part IV: Expanding Your Minecraft Experience 225 Chapter 12: Playing in Multiplayer Worlds and Cheats 227 Starting or Joining a Multiplayer World 227 Setting up a LAN server 228 Joining a public server 229 Joining regular and bukkit servers 230 Playing PE MultiPlayer Mode 231 Using the Chat Menu and Cheats 232 Entering commands that can be used by all players 232 Using operator-only commands 233 Using operator-only, public-server-only commands 236 Using nonspecifi c parameters 237 Playing Mini Games 237 Chapter 13: Customizing Your Experience 241 Implementing Additional World Options 241 Using seeds 242 Customizing a superflat world 243 Choosing large biomes and amplified worlds 244 Playing in Customized mode 245 Playing in Debug mode 246 PE Old World Type 247 Using the Profile Editor 247 Managing the minecraft Folder 248 Using minecraft 249 Recovering minecraft 250 Exploring Adventure Mode 250 Playing Custom Maps 251 Using CTM maps 251 Exploring adventure maps 251 Using game maps 252 Navigating the Escape Key Window 252 Earning achievements 253 Adjusting your options 258 Customizing Skins 259 Installing Resource Packs 261 Installing Mods 262 Installing Mod Packs 264 Customizing Gameplay Through Apps 265 Chapter 14: Minecraft in the Larger World 267 Checking Out External Sites and Resources 267 Watching YouTube 268 Subscribing to Redstone YouTubers 269 Finding Minecraft YouTube groups 270 Watching building-focused YouTube channels 271 Learning about plugins 271 Finding map makers 272 Listening to Minecraft music on YouTube 272 Going Beyond YouTube 273 Going to Minecon 274 Part V: Making Minecraft a Family Affair 275 Chapter 15: Choosing the Platform That Works for You 277 Playing Minecraft PC 278 Exploring Minecraft PE 280 Using Minecraft on the Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PlayStation 3 281 Using Minecraft for Raspberry Pi 282 Anticipating Future Editions of Minecraft 282 Chapter 16: Understanding the Minecraft Game Modes 283 Entering Survival Mode 283 Practicing with Creative Mode 284 Navigating Adventure Mode 286 Torturing Yourself Through Hardcore Mode 287 Seeing the World Through Spectator Mode 288 Dying and Respawning 289 Dying in Hardcore and Peaceful mode 291 Implementing cheats 292 Understanding Game Modes in Minecraft PE 292 Chapter 17: Understanding What Every Parent Needs to Know about Minecraft 295 Teaching Through Minecraft 296 Knowing Where to Buy Minecraft 299 Differentiating between game types 299 Ordering your child’s first Minecraft account 301 Registering a Minecraft account 301 Purchasing and installing Minecraft 302 Keeping Your Kids Safe 303 Knowing whom your kids are playing with 303 Understanding Minecraft channels on YouTube 304 Installing safe software 306 Teaching Proper Minecraft Etiquette 307 Preventing server crashes 308 Stealing is wrong 308 Asking permission 308 Playing with Your Children 309 Mastering the basics 309 Playing in Creative mode 310 Winning the game 311 Part VI: The Part of Tens 313 Chapter 18: Ten Helpful Survival Tips 315 Dig Safely 315 Cook Efficiently 316 Obtain Obsidian and Portals Quickly 317 Mine In the Right Location 318 Avoid Overexertion 318 Defeat Basic Mobs 320 Obtain Experience Points 321 Craft Quickly 322 Check Basic Equipment 322 Find Natural Comfort 324 Chapter 19: Ten Helpful Building Tips and Tricks 325 Making Your Starter Home Stylish 325 Improving the Exterior Design in Three Stylish Ways 326 Hiding Lighting 327 Combining Blocks in Different Ways 329 Understanding Circles, Spheres, and Domes 330 Designing the Interior 331 Building tables 332 Arranging chairs 332 Creating bunk beds 333 Lighting the fi replace 333 Playing with Sand and Gravel 333 Laying Roofs 333 Terraforming the Terrain 336 Using Pressure Plates 336 Chapter 20: Ten Helpful Redstone Tips and Contraptions 339 Keeping the Power On with a T Flip-Flop 339 Building Design A 339 Building Design B 340 Building Design C 342 Getting Hopper Help 343 Building a Block Update Detector (BUD) Switch 345 Creating a Constant Signal Switch with the RS-NOR Latch 346 Walking Through Walls with a Double Piston Extender 347 Creating Short Pulses with a Monostable Circuit 348 Extending Pulses with Pulse Extenders 349 Creating Hidden Doors with Sticky Piston Doors 350 Creating Hidden Inputs 353 Blowing Things Up with TNT Contraptions 354 Index 357

Rezension

“…this book is actually really good. For the beginner who wants to get involved, to the creative type who want some help with the more advanced mechanics, to the seasoned survival goon who wants to conquer the end. This book really does cover everything.” (Invision Game Community, February 2015) “Whether you are a family of Minecraft players or like me; you are a parent of a Minecraft addict and you want to know a little more information, then this book is a worthwhile investment.” (Stressy Mummy parenting blog, April 2015)

Autorenportrait

Jesse Stay is a social media technologist consultant and developer. Thomas Stay, Jesse's 12-year-old son, eats, drinks and breathes Minecraft. Jacob Cordeiro won an award for his game entry in the 2011 Scholastic Art and Writing competition.

Back cover copy

Learn to: <ul> <li>Create your world with blocks and defend against monsters</li> <li>Play in the various gameplay modes</li> <li>Travel across the biomes and defeat Ender Dragon</li> </ul> Don’t be a Minecraft tourist—make it your minion with this full-color guide Whether you play to win or just like to explore, Minecraft For Dummies quickly helps you discover how to make the world of Minecraft whatever you want it to be—before you break your first block! With easy-to-follow instruction from a team of Minecraft experts, you’ll find out how to create or destroy, make war or peace, and attack or defend. <ul> <li>Mine into Minecraft — understand biomes, build the perfect farm, raise animals, grow mushrooms, and make it past mobs</li> <li>The last (Minecraft) man standing — survive by digging, cooking, finding caves, avoiding overexertion, defeating mobs, amassing colored wool, and crafting quickly</li> <li>It takes a village — explore and trade in villages, mine redstone, master blocks, and advance with inventions</li> <li>Make Minecraft your own — find cool tips on playing with multiplayer, using the chat menu, customizing your experience, and unlocking Adventure mode</li> </ul> Open the book and find: <ul> <li>Tips for devising a game plan</li> <li>Ways to manipulate your inventory</li> <li>How to trade with emeralds</li> <li>Steps to survive hunger through farming and mining</li> <li>What you need to know about the difficult and hardcore modes</li> <li>Help understanding the Minecraft game modes</li> <li>Survival strategies you can’t be without</li> <li>Helpful building tips and tricks</li> <li>Indispensable Redstone tips and contraptions</li> </ul>