Minecraft Recipes For Dummies, Portable Edition

Chapter 4

Advancing through Engineering

In This Chapter

Finding and handling fire

Getting around with different types transportation

Engineering all sorts of items with redstone

If you jumped directly to this chapter, you’re not alone. Many players are eager to start blowing things up, developing sophisticated rails, and advancing their redstone capabilities. For the budding engineer who is eager to build rather than survive, farm, and mine, this chapter is written for you.

Discovering Fire

Fire, as in real life, is both helpful and dangerous. It provides light, cooks meat, ignites TNT, and causes damage to mobs. But it can also cause damage to players, burn their belongings and farms, and damage passive mobs. Learning to use fire correctly is vital as you advance through the game.

Crafting and lighting TNT

TNT is the only explosive block in the game. Lighting it on fire, by using flint and steel (see “Creating Fire with Flint and Steel” later in the chapter) sets it off. It toggles between a white texture and the normal texture; after the white texture appears eight times, the TNT expands quickly and explodes. The explosion appears random but is determined by a complicated mathematical ...