Introduction

If you enjoy games about building, survival, engineering, and adventuring, Minecraft is for you. Having attracted more than 9 million players, Minecraft is a loose-ended yet adventurous sandbox game that becomes whatever you make of it.

Minecraft is about gathering resources and building structures while facing monsters. The world of Minecraft is composed of cubic blocks, which you can break and replace to build houses and craft items. That’s all there is to it. The game has evolved to become so balanced and complex that it has attracted millions of satisfied fans. While skimming or scouring Minecraft For Dummies, Portable Edition, you can apply every bit of Minecraft information you need to start playing the game to your liking.

About This Book

This book assumes no knowledge of Minecraft, and it can guide you from registering a Minecraft account to crafting various items to building automatic farms and giant buildings and machines, all with an assortment of basic building blocks.

Although Minecraft has a gigantic community of players who design their own third-party programs, Minecraft For Dummies, Portable Edition, focuses primarily on the game itself. This book is a helpful resource for new Minecraft players to gain momentum in the game and recall information they may have otherwise forgotten. Though this book goes only so far in giving strategic guidance, leaving most of the game to the player’s creativity, you can find extensive notes in this book on many of ...

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