Minecraft Recipes For Dummies, Portable Edition

Chapter 9

Ten Essential Minecraft Ingredients

In This Chapter

Exploring ten essential ingredients

Obtaining and maximizing these ingredients

With more than 200 Minecraft recipes, including smelting and brewing recipes, a handful of ingredients are common across several types of recipes. This chapter helps you examine the ten essential ingredients that you need to acquire and then put in the inventory to advance through crafting things in Minecraft.

Building the Basics with Wood

Wood is the basic ingredient that interlinks all craftable items in Minecraft. You cannot finish the game, or even advance in it, without wood. The first thing a player does in Minecraft is punch (or harvest by hitting things like trees with the item in your hand) wood, often using it to create survival items for the first night — a sword, bed, shelter, and crafting table.

You can also obtain wood by chopping, digging, mining, slicing, or basically breaking it in any way possible. It has 6 different variations (see Figure 9-1): oak, birch, spruce, jungle, dark oak, and acacia. Each type has a different texture and is found in a different biome.

Figure 9-1: Wood has six various textures.

Wood is generally ...