| Description |
1 online resource (227 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Conventions Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Part 1 Getting Started with Minecraft -- Chapter 1 Minecraft Is for Everyone - But What Is It? -- Playing Minecraft with the Children in Your Life -- Getting a handle on the basics -- Playing in Creative mode -- Winning the game -- Letting Minecraft Help You Teach -- Knowing Where to Get Started with Minecraft -- Keeping Your Kids Safe -- Knowing with whom your kids are playing |
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Subscribing to Minecraft channels on YouTube -- Teaching Proper Minecraft Etiquette -- Preventing server crashes -- Recognizing that stealing is wrong -- Asking permission -- Chapter 2 Scratching the Surface of Minecraft -- Figuring Out Where to Play Minecraft: Console Round-Up -- Purchasing and Installing Minecraft -- Playing the Game -- Meeting the cast -- Sorting out the gamemodes -- The For Dummies guide to Minecraft slang -- Understanding basic controls -- The hostile and friendly mobs in the Overworld -- Discovering Tools -- Interacting with Various Blocks |
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Chapter 3 Let's Go! Playing the Game and Surviving the First Night -- Viewing the World Around You -- Operating the Basic Minecraft Controls -- Watching the Heads-Up Display (HUD) -- Preparing for Your First Night -- Harvesting trees -- Building a crafting table and shelter -- Crafting the crafting table -- Building or finding shelter -- Making sticks and wooden tools -- Completing Optional Day 1 Activities -- Building a full house -- Constructing a chest -- Mining cobblestone and coal -- Building a bed -- Surviving the Night -- Switching from Peaceful mode to Easy mode to Normal mode |
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Surviving the first night: Three strategies to light the way -- Strategy 1: Implement the basic strategy -- Strategy 2: Use the safe strategy with popular optional activities -- Strategy 3: Plan an adventure strategy -- Part 2 Getting a Handle on the Basic Skills -- Chapter 4 Surviving Hunger -- Keeping Hunger at Bay -- Finding food -- Chapter 5 Discovering Blocks and Items -- Starting in the Wooden Age -- The overwhelming need for wood -- There's a wood for that -- Pillaging and Plundering -- Knowing when to loot and when not to -- Where to go, what to find -- Surviving the Stone Age |
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The cheap and plentiful -- The necessities -- The path to iron -- Advancing to the Iron Age -- Making and mastering weapons -- Stringing the bow -- Strapping the shield -- Using Utility Blocks -- Smelting and cooking -- Jukebox and note block -- Stonecutter and loom -- Building an Effective House or Base -- Knowing Where to Store Items -- Chapter 6 Exploring Biomes -- Knowing What's What with Biomes -- Excavating Structures -- Part 3 Expanding Your Skills -- Chapter 7 Creating Farms in Your World -- Working with Crops and Animals -- Growing crops -- Farming wheat, carrots, potatoes, and beetroot |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Harvesting melons and pumpkins |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Stay, Joseph
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Stay, Alex
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| ISBN |
9781119907497 |
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1119907497 |
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