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Mining for Resources in Minecraft - For DummiesMining is a large part of Minecraft (as the name would imply) and gives you the necessary resources to craft advanced weapons and other useful items. You will likely find yourself digging a staircase mine on your first night (within the relative safety of your shelter).
Here are some steps to get yo
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Collecting Resources in Minecraft - For DummiesIn Minecraft, the majority of survival gameplay takes place in the extensive biomes found in the Overland. There, you collect resources that you use to survive and thrive throughout the game.Planning for short-term survivalRegardless of what biome you spawn into, you need to concentrate on short ter
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How to Create Teams with the Scoreboard in Minecraft - For DummiesThe last feature of the scoreboard is creating teams of Minecraft players and allocating players to them. This allows you to set up a lot of different settings specific to certain teams or team distribution.
You can create, delete, and modify teams with these commands:
scoreboard teams add <name&
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How to Create Scoreboard Objectives in Minecraft - For DummiesOne of the most fundamental applications of the Minecraft scoreboard is its ability to store objectives, or variables that store information about players. For example, you can have objectives that track players’ health or show how much damage each player has dealt. You can even have an object
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Autocompleting Commands on the Minecraft Chat Menu - For DummiesThe Minecraft Chat menu has a useful feature for writing commands without consulting various guides. The Tab key allows you to automatically complete commands and parameters with a single button. This makes it efficient and extremely useful to write complicated commands in chat, and then copy and pa
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10 Minecraft Redstone Tricks for Survival Mode - For DummiesHere are some tips for how you can apply redstone programming in Minecraft— specifically, in Survival mode. Check out these ten ideas for using redstone that you may find particularly useful or interesting.
Self-harvesting farms
Many farms can be self-harvesting — automated to produce it
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How to Construct a Minecraft Adventure - For DummiesDesigning an adventure in Minecraft is similar to building a minigame, in that the most important element is structure. The structure of an adventure determines where players have to go, what variables govern the players and the environment, and the progression of challenges and rewards.
Here, you c
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How to Plan and Assemble a Minecraft Minigame - For DummiesMinigames are complex and interesting redstone devices that allow the Minecraftplayer to complete a simple challenge. These minigames can be ones of your own invention, though many builders like to imitate classic board games or arcade games in Minecraft.
For example, check out this re-creation of a
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How to Use Redstone to Produce Coordinated Events in Minecraft - For DummiesWhether you’re managing a minigame or guiding an adventure in Minecraft, redstone engineering can be quite useful for making your custom map progress the way you like. Use input from players to run your programs and execute the events that occur on the map.
For example, here you see three room
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How to Customize a Map for Other Minecraft Players - For DummiesTo design a detailed custom map, make the map well-adjusted for your Minecraft players: it should be sufficiently fun, not too easy or difficult, and well-detailed. Keep reading to figure out how to set up a map and use redstone to control the adventure.
Setting up the map
Especially in adventure or
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How to Use Generalized Variables in Minecraft to Efficiently Create Commands - For DummiesMinecraft command blocks can do so many things that time constraints are often the only limitations. Sometimes, a program requires many different command blocks, and these sometimes take a while to design, place, and write out. Check out the following ways to make outstanding command block designs t
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How to Apply Commands to Minecraft Redstone Machines - For DummiesIn Creative mode, command blocks aren’t just a substitution for circuits. In Minecraft, command blocks activate whenever they’re powered by redstone current — thus, when linked into a redstone circuit, they can function in interesting ways. There are different ways to integrate com
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How to Fix Bugs in Minecraft Commands and Their Data Tags - For DummiesYou can easily make mistakes when composing data tags in Minecraft. Further, these mistakes can be difficult to locate. Here are some techniques you can use whenever your commands don’t work, in order to discover and fix the problem.
Some general debugging methods
If a command just doesn’
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How to Create Custom Fireworks in Minecraft - For DummiesOne complex item tag structure in Minecraft is the firework. Fireworks can produce many customizable particle effects, and unlike with the particle command, you can customize their colors and other visual settings.
Each firework rocket contains the Fireworks tag, a compound containing a byte called
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How to Equip and Pose Minecraft Armor Stands - For DummiesArmor stands are wooden sculptures that can equip armor and wield items in Minecraft — and with the right data tags, they can be posed and set up any way you want, creating sculptures and scenes of any sort.
Locking the equipment of armor stands
One problem with armor stands is that players ca
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How to Throw Blocks Around in Minecraft with the FallingSand Entity - For DummiesIn Minecraft, sand and gravel blocks fall if there are no blocks underneath to support them. While one of these blocks is falling, it temporarily turns into the FallingSand entity, before turning into a block again when it lands.
However, the addition of data tags to the game marked a huge change in
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How to Summon Customized Minecraft Villagers - For DummiesOne interesting use of entity data tags is the ability to customize villagers in Minecraft. Villagers are mobs that can trade items with players, and their trading options are usually generated randomly. However, by customizing a villager with data tags, you can specify exactly what the villager wan
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How to Implement Special Arguments in Minecraft Commands - For DummiesSometimes, commands require you to know specific information about the Minecraft world. For example, the teleport command doesn’t work unless you enter the name of a player who’s currently online — this can be quite impractical in a server where several players join and leave. Fort
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How to Apply Basic Commands in a Minecraft Command Block - For DummiesOnce you have a command block, you can apply basic commands in Minecraft with little trouble. Basic commands require only a few words and numbers. Command blocks support the following basic commands.
defaultgamemode <mode>
Specifies the game mode for new players entering the world. For <mod
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How to Obtain, Program and Activate a Command Block in Minecraft - For DummiesCommand blocks are useful elements in Minecraft because they have world-bending abilities. You first need to obtain a command block, and then you must program and activate it to be useful to you in the game.
Obtaining a command block
Command blocks, because of their world-bending abilities, cannot b
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