The Big Book of Building: Everything Minecraft Imagine It Create It Build It - Hardcover

Triumph Books

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1629370282 ISBN 13: 9781629370286

Verlag: Triumph Books, 2014

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Brought to you by the authors and editors that created the Minecrafter and Minecrafter 2.0 Advanced guide books, The Big Book of Building features more of everything—more mods, more mining, more mobs, and more Minecraft! Up to date for the 2014 holiday season, The Big Book of Building is packed with the most recent training, tools, and techniques to help readers get more out of their favorite sandbox game. 2014 was a pivotal year for Minecraft, and this book captures all the latest and greatest things that have happened to one of the most brilliant and immersive games in video game history. From a brief overview of the game to advanced farming, mining, and building techniques, this guide touches on everything Minecraft enthusiasts could ever ask for. Featuring authoritative and engaging content from our internal experts, The Big Book of Building also highlights some of the most influential builders in the Minecraft community today and examines their creations and techniques that catapulted them to fame.

This book is not authorized, sponsored, endorsed or licensed by Mojang AB. The trademark Minecraft is owned by Mojang AB; and other company names and/or trademarks mentioned in this book are the property of their respective companies and are used for identification purposes only.

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The Big Book of Minecraft

By Trevor Talley, Joe Funk

Triumph Books

Copyright © 2014 Triumph Books LLC
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-62937-028-6

Contents

Introduction, 
Getting Started, 
Nighttime, 
Biomes, 
Materials, 
Friends & Foes, 
Navigation, 
Guide to Mini-games & Online Play, 
Mining Better, 
Farming & Advanced Agriculture, 
Combat, 
Advanced Architecture, 
Redstone & Inventions, 
Gallery, 
What To Do When, 
Beating the Game, 
Other Building & Sandbox Games, 
The Wide World of PC Mods, 
Heroes of Minecraft, 

CHAPTER 1

GETTING STARTED

So here you are, you've taken the plunge and bought Minecraft. You're staring at that menu screen, and you're ready to dive into this crazy world you've heard so much about.

Now, you could start up a new world and try and wing it, but trust us, that path leads to darkness (literally), frustration and, yes, death. Minecraft is a game that's at once very simple on the surface and incredibly complex underneath, and what you do when you first start out can make a huge difference in your success at crafting the world you want. That, plus it's really not much fun to die in the dark from your fourth Creeper attack in a row and lose all of your gear over and over.

To get the most out of Minecraft, you'll have a much better and less death-filled time if you know a few things about the game before jumping right in.

THE MENUS

It only takes the push of a few buttons to start up a new Minecraft world, but the good folks at Mojang packed the Minecraft menus full of options that can make a big difference in your overall experience. Of particular importance are the "Help & Options" area and, of course, the "Play Game" button.

HELP & OPTIONS

The title says it all — this is where you want to go to find everything from audio and visual settings to new skins for your avatar and mini-guides on how to deal with certain aspects of the game. Much of this can be accessed in-game, so it's not entirely necessary that you look through this or tweak it in any way until you've played a little, but it's good to know that it's there ahead of time.

PLAY GAME

This is where the magic happens. The "Play Game" button is what kicks off your Minecraft experience, whether it's starting a new world with "Create New World," trying out the "Tutorial" or getting back into one of the games you've already begun. As you'll see, when you open the "Play Game" menu for the first time, you only have the option to start a new world up or to give the built-in tutorial a try, but later any worlds you start and save will show up here.

HOW TO START A GAME

Ready to start a world?! Select "Create New World" from the "Play Game" menu, and take a gander at all the options you've got! Here's a big not-so-secret about Minecraft: there are just about an infinite number of possible worlds to try out, and not all are created equal. In fact, you'll find new environments that require different tactics in almost every world you start, which is one of the reasons Minecraft is such a popular game.

When preparing a world for play, you've got two sets of options to look at.

THE PRIMARY OPTIONS

These are the most important options for making your new world just how you want it, and they're the only ones you actually have to set. The first three, "Online Game," "Invite Only" and "Allow Friends of Friends" all have to do with playing single player or multiplayer. You can start a game by yourself no matter which of these are checked, but if you want other people to play with you, make sure "Online Game" is checked and then check the other two depending on who you want to be able to join.

"World Name" isn't too important, but it is what your world will be permanently saved as, so pick something memorable!

"Seed for the World Generator," however, is very important to how your world comes out. Seeds are numbers that the game uses to create your world, and they can either be set manually (if you want to play a seed you've heard about) or left blank for a random seed based on the time.

You'll now need to set the type of game you're playing. For the console version, this means choosing between "Creative" or "Survival" modes and the two are exactly what they sound like. "Creative" mode is all about making things, and you get access to every single item and material in the game without having to find them. Additionally, you can fly and manipulate the world however you want. "Survival" mode, on the other hand, forces you to find and/or create items and structures from what's in the world around you, and all the while you'll be fighting against hostile monsters and the elements. This guide is mostly centered on "Survival" mode, though "Creative" mode is absolutely worth checking out too.

Finally, you need to set a difficulty level, for which you have four options:

Peaceful: No hostile mobs exist. You don't need to eat.

Easy: Hostile mobs are fewer and do less damage. Not eating does less damage.

Normal: The standard number of mobs spawn and do standard damage. Not eating depletes your health.

Hard: There are more monsters and they will seriously mess you up if they catch you, and not eating can kill you.

For your first game, we suggest trying either "Normal" or "Easy."

MORE OPTIONS

The "More Options" button lets you tweak your world a little more, though you can leave it alone if you want. Here you'll find eight more options to turn on or off, and these fall into the following categories:

Online Game Options: "Player vs Player" lets you decide whether multiplayer participants can hurt each other or not, while "Trust Players" is an option you can turn off if you don't want newcomers to be able to build or destroy until you say so. "Host Privileges" turns on the option for you, the host of the game, to have special abilities if you want them, but it also negates any achievements you get from playing.

Fire and TnT: Turn these off if you want fire and TNT to do no damage.

World Options: If "Generate Structures" is turned off, you won't find any Villages, Nether Forts or Strongholds in your game, each of which is a structure you can find out more about in the "Navigating Villages and Structures" section of the guide. "Superflat World" makes everything flat, just like it sounds. "Bonus Chest" can make a big difference to how your first few days go. It spawns a chest near your starting point that contains quite a few usable items, meaning you don't have to make your own.

Using the above info, make your menu choices the way you'd like them to be, and then press "Create New World" to start up your very first world!

CONTROLLING YOUR MINER

Minecraft controls are pretty darn simple, and if you've ever played a First Person Shooter game, you're already familiar with the basic idea. For those that haven't, your RS (right stick) looks around the world, while the LS (left stick) moves you forward, backward and in any other direction in a straight line without changing which direction you're looking.

The lettered buttons on the right of your controller (X, Y, B and A) control Crafting, Inventory, Throw Item and Jump, respectively, while LB (left button) and RB (right button) cycle through items in your inventory tray at the bottom of your screen. Two of the most important buttons are LT (left trigger), which opens...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Triumph Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1629370282
• ISBN 13: 9781629370286
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 191
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