| Introduction |
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Conventions Used In This Book |
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PART 1 GETTING STARTED WITH MINECRAFT |
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Chapter 1 Minecraft Is for Everyone -- But What Is It? |
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Playing Minecraft with the Children in Your Life |
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Getting a handle on the basics |
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Letting Minecraft Help You Teach |
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Knowing Where to Get Started with Minecraft |
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Knowing with whom your kids are playing |
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Subscribing to Minecraft channels on YouTube |
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Teaching Proper Minecraft Etiquette |
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Preventing server crashes |
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Recognizing that stealing is wrong |
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Chapter 2 Scratchingthe Surface of Minecraft |
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Figuring Out Where to Play Minecraft: Console Round-Up |
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Purchasing and Installing Minecraft |
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Sorting out the gamemodes |
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The For Dummies guide to Minecraft slang |
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Understanding basic controls |
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The hostile and friendly mobs in the Overworld |
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Interacting with Various Blocks |
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Chapter 3 Lets Go! Playing the Game and Surviving the First Night |
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Viewing the World Around You |
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Operating the Basic Minecraft Controls |
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Watching the Heads-Up Display (HUD) |
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Preparing for Your First Night |
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Building a crafting table and shelter |
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Making sticks and wooden tools |
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Completing Optional Day 1 Activities |
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Mining cobblestone and coal |
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Switching from Peaceful mode to Easy mode to Normal mode |
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Surviving the first night: Three strategies to light the way |
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PART 2 GETTING A HANDLE ON THE BASIC SKILLS |
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Chapter 4 Surviving Hunger |
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Chapter 5 Discovering Blocks and Items |
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Starting in the Wooden Age |
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The overwhelming need for wood |
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Knowing when to loot and when not to |
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Where to go, what to find |
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Advancing to the Iron Age |
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Making and mastering weapons |
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Building an Effective House or Base |
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Knowing Where to Store Items |
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Chapter 6 Exploring Biomes |
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Knowing What's What with Biomes |
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PART 3 EXPANDING YOUR SKILLS |
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Chapter 7 Creating Farms in Your World |
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Working with Crops and Animals |
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Creating basic animal farms |
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Growing basic plant farms |
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Simplifying basic redstone blocks |
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Building an automated plant farm |
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Building an automated animal farm |
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Chapter 8 Exploringthe Minecraft Underground by Mining and Caving |
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Digging into branch mining |
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Stepping into staircase mining |
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Ripping into strip mining |
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Rushing into speed mining |
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Staying Safe While Mining |
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Chapter 9 Leading Your Village |
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Exploring villager professions |
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Trading Your Way to Wealth |
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Chapter 10 Powering Up with Weapons and Potions |
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Enchanting Weapons, Tools, and Armor |
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Benefiting from enchantments |
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Repairing items on the anvil |
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Chapter 11 Advancing to the Nether, The End, and Beyond |
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Exploring the nether structures |
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Grabbing resources before leaving the Nether |
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Bringing along items to help find The End |
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The foreboding portal room |
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Fighting the ender dragon |
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Entering The End via the exit portal |
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Going Beyond the Ender Dragon |
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Surviving the Afterglow of The End |
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Chapter 12 Expanding Your Minecraft Experience |
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Starting and Joining a Private Multiplayer World |
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Using commands that any players can use |
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Using gamerules to your advantage |
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Checking Out External Sites and Resources |
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Listening to Minecraft music |
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Chapter 13 Ten Things Adults Should Try in Minecraft (Adults Only!) |
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Grasp the Basics of the Game |
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Know Who Your Children Play With |
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Use Minecraft as a Teaching Tool |
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Divorced with Kids? Coparent Better by Using Minecraft |
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See Minecraft as More than a Game |
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Chapter 14 Ten Helpful Survival Tips |
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Obtain Obsidian and Build Portals Quickly |
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Mine in the Right Location |
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| Glossary |
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| Index |
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