Book description
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
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- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Getting Started with Recipes
- Chapter 2: Defending Yourself
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Chapter 3: Advancing By Way of Farming and Mining
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Harvesting and Farming Food Items
- Crafting seeds from melons
- Crafting blocks to store melons
- Farming pumpkin seeds
- Feeding your sugar tooth
- Making 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
- Mining Ore
- Smelting Ore into Ingot
- Crafting Blocks of Minerals
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Harvesting and Farming Food Items
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Chapter 4: Advancing through Engineering
- Discovering Fire
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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 furnace
- Crafting a minecart with hopper
- Exploding your way through a minecart with TNT
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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
- Powering the lights with a redstone torch
- Lighting the way with a redstone lamp
- Extending power with a redstone repeater
- Determining logic with a redstone comparator
- Sounding the alarm with a note block
- Designing fireworks with a firework star
- Launching the firework rocket
- Spawning items using the nether reactor core
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Chapter 5: Expanding Your House
- Climbing with Ladders
- Messaging with Signs
- Banners
- Decorating with Flowerpots
- Utilizing Paper
- Enchanting with Books
- Writing Stories with a Book and Quill
- Building a Bookshelf
- Navigating with an Empty Map
- Orienting with a Compass
- Telling the Time with a Clock
- Hanging Paintings
- Storing with an Item Frame
- Signaling with a Beacon
- Crafting on an Anvil
- Sharing with an Ender Chest
- Seeing through the Eye of Ender
- Using Glass
- Dealing with Glass Panes
- Carving a Jack-o’-Lantern
- Lighting the Way with Glowstone
- Letting It Snow
- Weaving White Wool
- Building Iron Bars
- Playing a Jukebox
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Chapter 6: Crafting with Decorative Blocks
- Placing Slabs
- Climbing Stairs
- Storing More Clay in Your Inventory with Clay Block
- Cooking Bricks
- Building with Stone Bricks
- Protecting Yourself with Nether Bricks
- Siding with Sandstone
- Decorating with Quartz
- Navigating with Moss Stone
- Growing with Coarse Dirt
- Protecting Yourself from Flames with Diorite
- Mining Granite
- Decorating with Andesite
- Building from Ocean Monuments with Prismarine
- Working with Sponges
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Chapter 7: Creating and Applying Dyes
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Creating the 16 Dyes
- Starting with bonemeal
- Going gloomy (or industrial) with light gray dye
- Getting gloomier with gray dye
- Mixing up black with ink sacs
- Popping out rose red
- Prettying with pink
- Making dandelion yellow dye
- Crafting orange dye
- Making cactus green dye
- Mixing lime dye
- Mining blue lapis lazuli
- Making light blue dye
- Aquafying things with cyan
- Preparing purple dye
- Coloring with magenta
- Finding brown dye
- Applying Dye to Items
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Creating the 16 Dyes
- Chapter 8: Enchantment and Brewing Recipes
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Chapter 9: Ten Essential Minecraft Ingredients
- Building the Basics with Wood
- Wielding Sticks to Advance in the Game
- Adding Texture with Wool
- Feeding Yourself and Animals with Wheat
- Building the Basics with Cobblestone
- Shooting Items with Gunpowder
- Building Solid Tools with Iron Ingot
- Enchanting with Gold Ingot
- Thinking Logically with Redstone
- Discovering Diamonds
- About the Authors
Product information
- Title: Minecraft Recipes For Dummies, Portable Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2014
- Publisher(s): For Dummies
- ISBN: 9781118968277
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