Minecraft for Beginners

One of the first challenges you'll face as a new Minecraft player is how to change your perspective, how to move, and how to interact with objects.  While Minecraft uses many common interaction techniques, there are a few subtleties that are important to having a positive experience rather than a frustrating one.

In this video, we'll show you how to get started interacting with objects in the game and collecting resources.

This video expands on what we've already covered in navigation and using objects.  We'll collect some resources and build our first, very modest, home to keep us safe at night.

Moving beyond the basics, you'll want to use objects with special properties, like the crafting table. You'll need a crafting table to create more complex items in the game, including tools, components for your home, and weapons to defend yourself.

In this video, we'll show you how to create a crafting table and then use it to make your first tool and a door for your house.

In this video, we'll expand our original home to make it safer and more attractive. To do this, we'll need to collect some new resources and build a furnace to smelt glass.

We've already seen some basic mining for stone and sandstone. Now we'll collect some coal and some iron. We'll need to move up from a wood pickaxe to a stone one in order to not destroy the iron ore when we mine it.  We'll also learn how to track our position using the coordinates system.

Our home provides shelter, which is a big part of survival, but there is more we need to do. In this video, we'll create a simple farm and learn to cook food in our furnace.

We're going to do one more round of expansion on our home, adding some space for additional objects in the home. We'll see which resources can be reused and which are destroyed when you expand. We'll also clean up our first version of the house, making it more attractive.

Minecraft isn't all mining, and it isn't all building. You also have to do battle with forces of evil. Luckily, these forces aren't organized, and with a little preparation you can deal with mobs as they spawn around you.

What happens in Minecraft when you die? Do you lose your stuff? Where do you respawn? In this video, we'll help you feel comfortable with death, at least in the world of Minecraft.

Our last video with gameplay, this video will show you how to make a bed, bringing a host of benefits for your Minecraft character.  We'll also craft an iron sword for better damage and durability.

By purchasing mods in the Minecraft Marketplace, you can expand your experience almost without bounds. There is something for everyone here, some free, some for a price.  A simple five-star rating system helps you to decide which might be worth your attention.

A quick video to show you how to change the appearance of your character in Minecraft by changing your skin.

A quick video that provides a comparison between the Survival Mode gameplay and Creative Mode gameplay.

An extra video that shows how to build a less traditional house, opting instead for a home with a view!