Minecraft Construction For Dummies, Portable Edition

Chapter 13

Using Lighting

In This Chapter

Finding the right type of lighting to use

Building light sources into the structure

After you’ve completely built a structure, you may notice that it’s a bit dark inside and outside. Don’t fret: This chapter tells you exactly how to add some light to a building.

Determining a Light Source

If you’re in the dark about what might work best as a light source, don’t worry. This section shines a little light on that topic. You have plenty of options to choose from, such as torches, glowstone, and lava, to name only a few.

Block light sources

As you can see throughout this book, Minecraft uses lots of different kinds of blocks. Some of them — glowstone, redstone lamp, and netherrack, to be specific — give off light. The next few sections dive into the specifics of each block light type.

Glowstone

Glowstone is a common way to produce light. To make glowstone, you need 4 glowstone dust — which makes sense. As for how to get hold of glowstone dust, that’s a bit more complicated.

You can get glowstone dust one of three ways: Trade a villager for it, kill a witch, or mine it from the Nether. Note that not all villagers trade glowstone, but some do. If you’re having trouble finding a villager willing to trade glowstone dust, move on to Option # 2: ...