Minecraft Recipes For Dummies

Jesse Stay, Thomas Stay

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9781118968277
• eBook ISBN: 9781118968284
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Programming Games
• Index: Computer Science

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.

Chapter 1

Getting Started with Recipes

In This Chapter

Finding, stocking, and using your inventory

Crafting items you need for the first day and night

Knowing the difference between shape and shapeless crafting

Crafting some basic tools

Minecraft, as its name implies, is about, well, crafting. Minecraft has roughly 180 crafting recipes (and many more in the works), ranging from tools to foods and from household items to magical potions and more. Learning how to craft from essential items to more elaborate redstone recipes helps you survive early in the game and then create a wealthy empire filled with useful and luxury items.

After you create a new world in Minecraft, the first order of business is to survive the first night. A Minecraft day lasts for 20 minutes; you experience 10-minute daytimes and 3 minutes total of sunrise and sunset, during which you can prepare for the 7-minute nights, when dangerous monsters spawn in the darkness.

In this chapter, you find out how the inventory works and how to craft basic items that can help you survive the first Minecraft day. You also see how these items enable you to use increasingly sophisticated materials and craft increasingly complex items.

Devising a Game Plan

After your avatar appears, you need to find a living space with some trees and a suitable (usually flat) area for building.

Always locate trees when starting a game, because you use wooden materials to craft most of the items you need. To survive the first night, craft these elements:

• Crafting table (also known as a workbench), used for building
• Storage chest
• Shelter with a door

You can also craft useful but non-essential items for the first night:

• Wooden and stone tools
• Torches
• Furnace
• Bed

Later sections in this chapter explain how to craft these items.

When you start creating your own world, you may discover that the sun is setting too fast for you to finish preparing for night. If that’s the case, you can press Esc to open the Pause menu and choose Options⇒Difficulty repeatedly until it reads Difficulty: Peaceful. This option makes the world much safer and causes your health to regenerate.

Using the Inventory

Before you start gathering materials and crafting items, you should know how to manage the Inventory screen. The 9 squares at the bottom of the game screen display items you’ve obtained. For example, if you break a block such as wood or dirt, an item pops out that is automatically picked up, causing it to appear in one of the inventory squares. The row of squares at the bottom of the game screen represents a quarter of the inventory.

To see the entire inventory, as shown in Figure 1-1, press E.

Figure 1-1: The Inventory screen.

You should be familiar with these four components of the inventory:

• Inventory slots: The 4 rows of squares at the bottom of the screen, where you see your items. You select the items in the bottom row outside the Inventory screen with the 1–9 keys on the keyboard.
• Crafting grid: A 2-by-2 square, followed by an arrow pointing toward another square to the right. When you want to craft basic items, such as torches or mushroom stew, place the ingredients on the grid to make the result appear on the other side of the arrow. After you create a crafting table, the crafting grid expands to a 3-by-3 grid.
• Character portrait: A small screen showing what your character looks like now. This portrait can change when your character sits or sleeps, wears armor, gets hit by arrows, drinks invisibility potions, catches fire, and more.
• Armor slots: The four squares in the upper left corner, representing a helmet, a suit, leggings, and boots. When you obtain armor later in the game, you can place it in these slots; Shift-clicking a piece of armor automatically equips it in the corresponding slot. See Chapter 3 for more information about armor.

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Crafting in other platforms

Crafting is quite limited and extremely simplified in the Pocket Edition (PE) version of Minecraft. The Inventory screen groups items into these categories:

• Blocks
• Tools
• Food and armor
• Decorative Items

To craft, you gather the ingredients you need in order to create the item. Then you simply click on the item you want to create and the items are deducted from the inventory (assuming that you have the correct ingredients). Only a few items are craftable in the PE version and there’s no crafting in Creative mode. The inventory display in the Pocket Edition looks like the one shown in the sidebar figure.

Console versions, such as Xbox 360 and PS4, blend the PC (desktop) and PE inventory and crafting processes using a grid format (like PC) but doesn’t require that the ingredients be placed in any specific order.

The PE crafting system is called MATTIS, which stands for Minecraft Advanced Touch Technology Interface System.

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Because most items are stackable, several similar items such as wooden planks or steak can share the same inventory slot; an item may have a white number next to it in the inventory, indicating how many you have. Most stackable items cannot exceed a stack of 64 items — you can fit as many as 64 items into one space. Tools, weapons, and armor do not stack, and some items, such as ender pearls or snowballs, cannot exceed a stack of 16 items.

Manipulating the Inventory...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Getting Started with Recipes
• Chapter 2: Defending Yourself
• Chapter 3: Advancing By Way of Farming and Mining
• Chapter 4: Advancing through Engineering
• Chapter 5: Expanding Your House
• Chapter 6: Crafting with Decorative Blocks
• Chapter 7: Creating and Applying Dyes
• Chapter 8: Enchantment and Brewing Recipes
• Chapter 9: Ten Essential Minecraft Ingredients
• About the Authors
• End User License Agreement