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Build, Discover, Survive! Mastering Minecraft, Revised and Expanded eGuide
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Contents

  • Art Gallery
    • Art Gallery
  • Playing With Friends
    • Introduction
    • Joining Servers
    • Local Play
    • Creating Your Own Server
    • Interacting With Other People
    • Sample Multiplayer Challenge
  • Creatures Big and Small
    • Introduction
    • Animal and Monster Quick List
    • Expanded Creature Entries
  • Tools, Resources, and Consumables
    • Introduction
    • Index
    • Blocks and Resources
    • Common Items
    • Crafting - A-D
    • Crafting - E-G
    • Crafting - H-M
    • Crafting - N-R
    • Crafting - S-Z
    • Food and Food Ingredients
    • Potions
    • Tools
    • Weapons and Armor
  • Videos
    • Videos
  • Let's Begin With the Basics
    • Introduction
    • Creating Your First World
    • Is This Where You Want to Live?
    • You Have 10 Minutes to Work Safely
    • Surviving the Night
    • Finding Some Food
    • Mine, Expand, and Thrive
    • Know Where You Are
    • Look Around
    • Moving On
  • What's New in This Guide?
    • Whats New in This Guide?
  • Before We Start
    • Introduction
    • The Menus
    • Controlling Your Character
    • Different Versions of Minecraft
  • Bigger and Better Projects
    • Introduction
    • Sample Project: Chichen Itza
    • Next Up: A Mountainous Undertaking!
    • Other People's Cool Projects
  • You Can Do Anything with a Little Practice
    • Introduction
    • How to Craft
    • Sometimes Things Break (i.e., Durability)
    • Farming
    • Creating Mines
    • Building Up and Out
    • Landscaping
    • Forming and Using Landmarks
    • Biomes
    • Special Areas
    • How Time Passes
    • The Way Monsters Are Born
    • Threats to Your Survival
    • Death and Rebirth
    • Traps and Defenses
    • Modern Conveniences
    • Thinking Outside the Blocks
    • Redstone
    • Enchantment and Using Experience
    • Brewing
    • Traveling the World
    • Trading
    • The Nether
    • The End
    • Achievements
  • Welcome To Minecraft
    • Welcome To Minecraft
  • Modifying Your Game
    • Introduction
    • Difficulty
    • Skins
    • Broadcast Settings
    • Resource Packs
    • Game Mods
  • A History of Minecraft
    • Introduction
    • Pre-Alpha Minecraft
    • Alpha
    • Beta
    • Release

Build, Discover, Survive! Mastering Minecraft, Revised and Expanded Guide

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  1. Art Gallery1
  2. Playing With Friends6
  3. Creatures Big and Small3
  4. Tools, Resources, and Consumables13
  5. Videos1
  6. Let's Begin With the Basics10
  7. What's New in This Guide?1
  8. Before We Start4
  9. Bigger and Better Projects4
  10. You Can Do Anything with a Little Practice25
  11. Welcome To Minecraft1
  12. Modifying Your Game6
  13. A History of Minecraft5
All the strategy at your fingertips—completely optimized for a second-screen experience. Enjoy all the content from our printed strategy guide in a convenient, easy-to-use digital companion.

All content in this eGuide is easily searchable and sortable.

Includes Five Tutorial Videos to get you up and running right away!

Complete Minecraft coverage—from basic gameplay to advanced features – all in one handy source.

Full update on new blocks, monsters, and recipes.

How to approach larger builds, featuring samples to get you started.

We break down every game mode and all forms of building. Details on mining and farming, brewing and enchanting, traps and defenses, monsters, other threats, using redstone, and much more.

Coverage of game mods, texture packs, joining and creating servers, and interacting with others.

Features “A History of Minecraft,” including revealing interviews with the game’s creators!

Plus, quick-reference charts for tools, resources, consumables, animals, and more.