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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 384 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 234x194x17 mm, weight: 776 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 20-Jan-2015
  • Leidėjas: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • ISBN-10: 1118968239
  • ISBN-13: 9781118968239
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 384 pages, aukštis x plotis x storis: 234x194x17 mm, weight: 776 g
  • Išleidimo metai: 20-Jan-2015
  • Leidėjas: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • ISBN-10: 1118968239
  • ISBN-13: 9781118968239
Kitos knygos pagal šią temą:
Don't be a Minecraft tourist get expert tips and advice in this full-color primer Minecraft For Dummies is the complete guide to playing within the Minecraft world. With easy-to-follow guidance from a team of Minecraft experts, you'll develop programming and engineering skills as you build amazing creations using in-game blocks and mechanical devices. Whether you prefer the PC, console, or portable platform, this helpful guide will walk you through the process of setting up and beginning gameplay, and engage with other users from all around the globe. With this trusty guidebook in hand, you'll navigate the infinite world of Minecraft with confidence, skills, and a storehouse of expert advice. Minecraft is the sandbox construction game that has become a mainstream phenomenon with over a hundred million players. A virtually infinite world and versatile style of play offer endless possibilities for both the hardcore gamer and the total noob, and Minecraft For Dummies shows you everything you need to know before you break your first block. * Choose your platform, download the game, and play in all three modes * Gather resources, place and break blocks, and use circuits and logic gates * Defend your creations against spiders, skeletons, zombies, and the Creeper * Travel across the biomes and defeat the enderdragon to win the game Whether you play to win or just like to explore, there is a style of Minecraft that will spark your imagination. Create or destroy, make war or peace, attack or defend the game is whatever you want it to be. If you're ready to leave your mark on this digital universe, Minecraft For Dummies is the primer you need to get up to speed.

Recenzijos

this book is actually really good. For the beginner who wants to get involved, to the creative type who want some help with the more advanced mechanics, to the seasoned survival goon who wants to conquer the end. This book really does cover everything. (Invision Game Community, February 2015) Whether you are a family of Minecraft players or like me; you are a parent of a Minecraft addict and you want to know a little more information, then this book is a worthwhile investment. (Stressy Mummy parenting blog, April 2015)

Introduction 1(6)
About This Book
2(1)
Conventions Used in This Book
2(1)
Foolish Assumptions
3(1)
How This Book Is Organized
3(1)
Part I Getting Started with Minecraft
3(1)
Part II Learning Basic Survival Skills
3(1)
Part III Developing Advanced Skills
4(1)
Part IV Customizing Minecraft
4(1)
Part V Making Minecraft a Family Affair
4(1)
Part VI The Part of Tens
4(1)
Icons Used in This Book
4(1)
Beyond the Book
5(2)
Part I Getting Started with Minecraft
7(40)
chapter 1 Entering Minecraft
9(16)
Getting to Know Minecraft
9(1)
Registering a Minecraft Account
10(1)
Purchasing and Installing Minecraft
11(1)
Playing the Game
12(6)
Logging in and operating the main menu
12(1)
Starting your first game in SinglePlayer mode
13(1)
Understanding basic controls
14(3)
Watching the Heads-Up Display (HUD)
17(1)
Minecraft PE
18(7)
Purchasing PE
19(1)
Starting PE
19(3)
Understanding the Heads-Up Display (HUD) for PE
22(3)
chapter 2 Surviving the First Night
25(22)
Preparing for Your First Night
25(4)
Devising a game plan
26(1)
Using the inventory
27(1)
Manipulating the inventory
28(1)
Setting Up for Your First Night
29(6)
Harvesting trees
29(1)
Building a crafting table and shelter
30(3)
Making sticks and wooden tools
33(2)
Completing Optional Day One Activities
35(3)
Constructing a chest
35(1)
Mining cobblestone and coal
36(1)
Building a bed
37(1)
Surviving the Night
38(6)
Switching from Peaceful mode to Easy mode to Normal mode
39(1)
Surviving the first night: Three strategies to light the way
40(4)
Surviving the Night
44(3)
Implementing a Minecraft PE strategy for surviving the night
45(2)
Part II Learning the Basic Skills
47(36)
chapter 3 Surviving Hunger
49(16)
Understanding and Avoiding Hunger
49(9)
Finding food
50(4)
Eating food
54(1)
Saturation: Making the most of your food
55(2)
Limiting exhaustion
57(1)
Understanding Minecraft PE and Food
58(1)
Attacking and Defending
58(1)
Making Weapons
59(1)
Wielding swords
59(1)
Stringing the bow
59(1)
Protecting Yourself with Armor
60(5)
Wearing leather
62(1)
Donning the helmet
63(1)
Pounding the chestplate
63(1)
Putting on leggings
63(1)
Walking in your boots
63(1)
Storing armor
63(2)
chapter 4 Discovering Blocks and Items
65(18)
Starting In the Wooden Age
65(5)
Making It Through the Looting Age
70(4)
Surviving the Stone Age
74(2)
Using the Furnace
76(3)
Using the Stonecutter with Minecraft PE
79(1)
Building an Effective House
79(1)
Moving from Effective Houses to Bases
80(3)
Part III Mastering Techniques
83(142)
chapter 5 Understanding Biomes and Mastering Farms
85(30)
Knowing Your Biomes
86(10)
Generating worlds
86(1)
Growing flowers
86(1)
Playing in snowy biomes
86(1)
Chilling in cold biomes
87(2)
Living in medium biomes
89(4)
Roasting in warm biomes
93(2)
Exploring in neutral biomes
95(1)
Building the Perfect Farm
96(8)
Growing crops
96(3)
Knowing the basic plants
99(3)
Farming animals
102(1)
Growing mushrooms
102(2)
Knowing the PE Farming Differences
104(1)
Examining Different Types of Mobs
104(11)
Living with docile mobs
105(2)
Protecting yourself from hostile mobs
107(4)
Ignoring neutral and allied mobs
111(2)
Raising pets
113(1)
Playing with PE mobs
114(1)
chapter 6 Mastering Mines
115(10)
Mining Efficiently
115(9)
Cave mining
115(2)
Digging into branch mining
117(4)
Stepping into staircase mining
121(1)
Building a quarry
122(1)
Ripping into strip mining
123(1)
Rushing into speed mining
124(1)
PE Mining: Random Mining
124(1)
chapter 7 Increasing Resources through Villages and Excavation
125(14)
Trading in Villages
125(6)
Exploring village features
126(1)
Trading with emeralds
127(2)
Surviving zombie sieges
129(2)
Exploring PE Villages
131(1)
Excavating Structures
132(6)
Excavating a Desert temple
132(1)
Finding jungle temples
133(1)
Breaking into a dungeon
134(1)
Invading the witch hut
134(1)
Exploring an abandoned mine shaft
135(1)
Finding a Stronghold
136(1)
Exploring the nether fortress
137(1)
Discovering ocean monuments
137(1)
Understanding Minecraft PE Excavation
138(1)
chapter 8 Developing Redstone
139(24)
Playing in Creative Mode
139(2)
Understanding Redstone Basics
141(18)
Transmitting power with redstone wire
142(1)
Using other redstone mechanisms
143(8)
Applying redstone circuits
151(1)
Advanced redstone circuitry
152(7)
Counting Minecraft Ticks
159(1)
Activating Command Blocks
160(1)
Creating Self-Sustaining Farms
160(3)
chapter 9 Progressing Through the Later Block Ages
163(30)
Exploring the Iron Age
163(5)
Using Tools of the Iron Age
163(3)
Playing with fluid dynamics
166(2)
Entering the Agricultural Age
168(1)
Reaping the Benefits of the Age of Wealth
169(11)
Finding the Nether and End
175(4)
Coloring with dyes
179(1)
Finding the Fun Stuff
180(3)
Starting Big Projects
183(5)
Farming hostile mobs
183(2)
Farming golems
185(2)
Exploring the block ages in Minecraft PE
187(1)
Building Transportation Systems
188(3)
Building boats
188(1)
Riding pigs and horses
188(2)
Transporting by way of minecarts
190(1)
PE Transportation
191(1)
Securing Your Base
191(2)
chapter 10 Powering Up
193(20)
Enchanting Weapons, Tools, and Armor
193(8)
Enchanting an item
194(2)
Using enchantments
196(2)
Repairing things on the anvil
198(3)
Brewing Potions
201(6)
Brewing basic potions
201(2)
Using potions
203(1)
Modifying potions
204(1)
Brewing negative potions
204(2)
Brewing splash potions
206(1)
Reverting potions
206(1)
Brewing order
206(1)
Fighting witches and potions
206(1)
Building the Beacon
207(6)
chapter 11 Advancing to the Nether, the End, and Beyond
213(12)
Reaching the Nether
213(5)
Building a portal
213(2)
Surviving the Nether
215(2)
Finding the Stronghold
217(1)
Playing PE Minecraft --- the Nether
218(4)
Conquering the End
219(2)
Staying busy in the afterglow of completing The End
221(1)
Surviving Hardcore Mode
222(3)
Part IV Expanding Your Minecraft Experience
225(50)
chapter 12 Playing in Multiplayer Worlds and Cheats
227(14)
Starting or Joining a Multiplayer World
227(4)
Setting up a LAN server
228(1)
Joining a public server
229(1)
Joining regular and bukkit servers
230(1)
Playing PE MultiPlayer Mode
231(1)
Using the Chat Menu and Cheats
232(5)
Entering commands that can be used by all players
232(1)
Using operator-only commands
233(3)
Using operator-only, public-server-only commands
236(1)
Using nonspecific parameters
237(1)
Playing Mini Games
237(4)
chapter 13 Customizing Your Experience
241(26)
Implementing Additional World Options
241(6)
Using seeds
242(1)
Customizing a superflat world
243(1)
Choosing large biomes and amplified worlds
244(1)
Playing in Customized mode
245(1)
Playing in Debug mode
246(1)
PE Old World Type
247(1)
Using the Profile Editor
247(1)
Managing the .minecraft Folder
248(2)
Using .minecraft
249(1)
Recovering .minecraft
250(1)
Exploring Adventure Mode
250(1)
Playing Custom Maps
251(1)
Using CTM maps
251(1)
Exploring adventure maps
251(1)
Using game maps
252(1)
Navigating the Escape Key Window
252(7)
Earning achievements
253(5)
Adjusting your options
258(1)
Customizing Skins
259(2)
Installing Resource Packs
261(1)
Installing Mods
262(2)
Installing Mod Packs
264(1)
Customizing Gameplay Through Apps
265(2)
chapter 14 Minecraft in the Larger World
267(8)
Checking Out External Sites and Resources
267(1)
Watching YouTube
268(5)
Subscribing to Redstone YouTubers
269(1)
Finding Minecraft YouTube groups
270(1)
Watching building-focused YouTube channels
271(1)
Learning about plugins
271(1)
Finding map makers
272(1)
Listening to Minecraft music on YouTube
272(1)
Going Beyond YouTube
273(1)
Going to Minecon
274(1)
Part V Making Minecraft a Family Affair
275(38)
chapter 15 Choosing the Platform That Works for You
277(6)
Playing Minecraft PC
278(2)
Exploring Minecraft PE
280(1)
Using Minecraft on the Xbox 360, Xbox One, and PlayStation 3
281(1)
Using Minecraft for Raspberry Pi
282(1)
Anticipating Future Editions of Minecraft
282(1)
chapter 16 Understanding the Minecraft Game Modes
283(12)
Entering Survival Mode
283(1)
Practicing with Creative Mode
284(2)
Navigating Adventure Mode
286(1)
Torturing Yourself Through Hardcore Mode
287(1)
Seeing the World Through Spectator Mode
288(1)
Dying and Respawning
289(3)
Dying in Hardcore and Peaceful mode
291(1)
Implementing cheats
292(1)
Understanding Game Modes in Minecraft PE
292(3)
chapter 17 Understanding What Every Parent Needs to Know about Minecraft
295(18)
Teaching Through Minecraft
296(3)
Knowing Where to Buy Minecraft
299(4)
Differentiating between game types
299(2)
Ordering your child's first Minecraft account
301(1)
Registering a Minecraft account
301(1)
Purchasing and installing Minecraft
302(1)
Keeping Your Kids Safe
303(4)
Knowing whom your kids are playing with
303(1)
Understanding Minecraft channels on YouTube
304(2)
Installing safe software
306(1)
Teaching Proper Minecraft Etiquette
307(2)
Preventing server crashes
308(1)
Stealing is wrong
308(1)
Asking permission
308(1)
Playing with Your Children
309(4)
Mastering the basics
309(1)
Playing in Creative mode
310(1)
Winning the game
311(2)
Part VI The Part of Tens
313(44)
chapter 18 Ten Helpful Survival Tips
315(10)
Dig Safely
315(1)
Cook Efficiently
316(1)
Obtain Obsidian and Portals Quickly
317(1)
Mine In the Right Location
318(1)
Avoid Overexertion
318(2)
Defeat Basic Mobs
320(1)
Obtain Experience Points
321(1)
Craft Quickly
322(1)
Check Basic Equipment
322(2)
Find Natural Comfort
324(1)
chapter 19 Ten Helpful Building Tips and Tricks
325(14)
Making Your Starter Home Stylish
325(1)
Improving the Exterior Design in Three Stylish Ways
326(1)
Hiding Lighting
327(2)
Combining Blocks in Different Ways
329(1)
Understanding Circles, Spheres, and Domes
330(1)
Designing the Interior
331(2)
Building tables
332(1)
Arranging chairs
332(1)
Creating bunk beds
333(1)
Lighting the fireplace
333(1)
Playing with Sand and Gravel
333(1)
Laying Roofs
333(3)
Terraforming the Terrain
336(1)
Using Pressure Plates
336(3)
chapter 20 Ten Helpful Redstone Tips and Contraptions
339(18)
Keeping the Power On with a T Flip-Flop
339(4)
Building Design A
339(1)
Building Design B
340(2)
Building Design C
342(1)
Getting Hopper Help
343(2)
Building a Block Update Detector (BUD) Switch
345(1)
Creating a Constant Signal Switch with the RS-NOR Latch
346(1)
Walking Through Walls with a Double Piston Extender
347(1)
Creating Short Pulses with a Monostable Circuit
348(1)
Extending Pulses with Pulse Extenders
349(1)
Creating Hidden Doors with Sticky Piston Doors
350(3)
Creating Hidden Inputs
353(1)
Blowing Things Up with TNT Contraptions
354(3)
Index 357
Jesse Stay is a social media technologist consultant and developer. Thomas Stay, Jesse's 12-year-old son, eats, drinks and breathes Minecraft. Jacob Cordeiro won an award for his game entry in the 2011 Scholastic Art and Writing competition.