Minecraft Recipes For Dummies, Portable Edition

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

      1. Introduction
        1. About This Book
        2. Foolish Assumptions
        3. Icons Used in This Book
        4. Conventions Used in This Book
        5. Where to Go from Here
      2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Recipes
        1. Devising a Game Plan
        2. Using the Inventory
        3. Manipulating the Inventory
        4. Setting Up for Your First Night
          1. Harvesting trees with your fists
          2. Creating wooden planks
          3. Building the crafting table
          4. Storing items in a chest
          5. Erecting a shelter and door
          6. Getting through the night on a bed
        5. Shape Crafting versus Shapeless Crafting
        6. Crafting Tools
          1. Starting with a stick
          2. Lighting the way with a torch
          3. Mining stone and ore with a pickaxe
          4. Smelting with the furnace
          5. Digging dirt with a shovel
          6. Chopping trees with the ax
          7. Tilling ground with a hoe
      3. Chapter 2: Defending Yourself
        1. Creating a Sword
        2. Stringing Your Bow
        3. Crafting an Arrow
        4. Protecting Yourself with Armor
          1. Leather
          2. Donning your helmet
          3. Pounding your chestplate
          4. Putting on leggings
          5. Walking in boots
          6. Armor Stand
      4. Chapter 3: Advancing By Way of Farming and Mining
        1. Harvesting and Farming Food Items
          1. Crafting seeds from melons
          2. Crafting blocks to store melons
          3. Farming pumpkin seeds
          4. Feeding your sugar tooth
          5. Making bread, cake, and cookies
          6. Making pumpkin pie
          7. Brewing mushroom stew
          8. Making wheat and hay bales
          9. Making the golden carrot
          10. Crafting golden apples
          11. Retrieving the enchanted golden apple
          12. Making beetroot soup
          13. Cooking rabbit stew
        2. Smelting Food
        3. Building Utensils
          1. Building a fishing rod
          2. Creating a bucket
          3. Building bowls
          4. Crafting shears
          5. Building fences
          6. Making a fence gate
          7. Building cobblestone walls
          8. Building a nether brick fence
          9. Taking the lead
        4. Mining Ore
        5. Smelting Ore into Ingot
          1. Smelting an iron ingot
          2. Making gold ingots
          3. Burning charcoal
        6. Crafting Blocks of Minerals
          1. Crafting coal blocks
          2. Making diamond blocks and emerald blocks
          3. Producing gold blocks and nuggets
          4. Crafting lapis lazuli blocks
          5. Making redstone blocks
          6. Producing iron blocks
          7. Nether Quartz
      5. Chapter 4: Advancing through Engineering
        1. Discovering Fire
          1. Crafting and lighting TNT
          2. Creating fire with flint and steel
          3. Building a fire charge
        2. Creating Transportation
          1. Dangling a carrot on a stick
          2. Rowing your boat
          3. Working on the railroad
          4. Constructing a powered rail
          5. Building a detector rail
          6. Activating the activator rail
          7. Riding the minecart
          8. Building storage minecarts
          9. Making a minecart with a furnace
          10. Crafting a minecart with hopper
          11. Exploding your way through a minecart with TNT
        3. Engineering with Redstone
          1. Pressing the button
          2. Crafting pressure plates
          3. Upgrading to weighted pressure plates
          4. Constructing trapdoors
          5. Securing the proximity with a tripwire hook
          6. Protecting your inventory with a trapped chest
          7. Turning on items with a lever
          8. Dropping inventory through the dispenser
          9. Building a dropper
          10. Picking up items with a hopper
          11. Pushing items remotely with a piston
          12. Constructing a sticky piston
          13. Detecting light with a daylight sensor
          14. Powering the lights with a redstone torch
          15. Lighting the way with a redstone lamp
          16. Extending power with a redstone repeater
          17. Determining logic with a redstone comparator
          18. Sounding the alarm with a note block
          19. Designing fireworks with a firework star
          20. Launching the firework rocket
          21. Spawning items using the nether reactor core
      6. Chapter 5: Expanding Your House
        1. Climbing with Ladders
        2. Messaging with Signs
        3. Banners
        4. Decorating with Flowerpots
        5. Utilizing Paper
        6. Enchanting with Books
        7. Writing Stories with a Book and Quill
        8. Building a Bookshelf
        9. Navigating with an Empty Map
        10. Orienting with a Compass
        11. Telling the Time with a Clock
        12. Hanging Paintings
        13. Storing with an Item Frame
        14. Signaling with a Beacon
        15. Crafting on an Anvil
        16. Sharing with an Ender Chest
        17. Seeing through the Eye of Ender
        18. Using Glass
        19. Dealing with Glass Panes
        20. Carving a Jack-o’-Lantern
        21. Lighting the Way with Glowstone
        22. Letting It Snow
        23. Weaving White Wool
        24. Building Iron Bars
        25. Playing a Jukebox
      7. Chapter 6: Crafting with Decorative Blocks
        1. Placing Slabs
        2. Climbing Stairs
        3. Storing More Clay in Your Inventory with Clay Block
        4. Cooking Bricks
        5. Building with Stone Bricks
        6. Protecting Yourself with Nether Bricks
        7. Siding with Sandstone
        8. Decorating with Quartz
        9. Navigating with Moss Stone
        10. Growing with Coarse Dirt
        11. Protecting Yourself from Flames with Diorite
        12. Mining Granite
        13. Decorating with Andesite
        14. Building from Ocean Monuments with Prismarine
          1. Mining prismarine shards and prismarine crystals
          2. Creating prismarine
          3. Crafting prismarine bricks
          4. Making dark prismarine
          5. Lighting up the sea with sea lanterns
        15. Working with Sponges
      8. Chapter 7: Creating and Applying Dyes
        1. Creating the 16 Dyes
          1. Starting with bonemeal
          2. Going gloomy (or industrial) with light gray dye
          3. Getting gloomier with gray dye
          4. Mixing up black with ink sacs
          5. Popping out rose red
          6. Prettying with pink
          7. Making dandelion yellow dye
          8. Crafting orange dye
          9. Making cactus green dye
          10. Mixing lime dye
          11. Mining blue lapis lazuli
          12. Making light blue dye
          13. Aquafying things with cyan
          14. Preparing purple dye
          15. Coloring with magenta
          16. Finding brown dye
        2. Applying Dye to Items
          1. Dyeing wool and sheep
          2. Crafting and dyeing carpets
          3. Changing the color of wolf collars
          4. Making stained glass with dyed glass panes
          5. Stained clay
          6. Dyed leather armor
      9. Chapter 8: Enchantment and Brewing Recipes
        1. Building an Enchantment Table
        2. Picking an Enchantment, Any Enchantment
        3. Making Brewing Tools
          1. Making glass bottles
          2. Brewing in cauldrons
          3. Making a brewing stand
        4. Crafting Brewing Ingredients
          1. Making blaze powder
          2. Making magma cream
          3. Making the eye of ender
          4. Brewing fermented spider eye
          5. Healing with glistening melon
        5. Understanding Brewing
          1. Making positive potions
          2. Concocting negative potions
          3. Brewing advanced potions
          4. Making the potion of invisibility
      10. Chapter 9: Ten Essential Minecraft Ingredients
        1. Building the Basics with Wood
        2. Wielding Sticks to Advance in the Game
        3. Adding Texture with Wool
        4. Feeding Yourself and Animals with Wheat
        5. Building the Basics with Cobblestone
        6. Shooting Items with Gunpowder
        7. Building Solid Tools with Iron Ingot
        8. Enchanting with Gold Ingot
        9. Thinking Logically with Redstone
        10. Discovering Diamonds
      11. About the Authors

    Product information

    • Title: Minecraft Recipes For Dummies, Portable Edition
    • Author(s): Jesse Stay, Thomas Stay
    • Release date: October 2014
    • Publisher(s): For Dummies
    • ISBN: 9781118968277