Minecraft Wiki Tutorials/Construction For new players on Minecraft, fending off monsters and harvesting materials can already be a very painful and confusing job. This tutorial will help you construct some of the most useful as well as some of the most impressive buildings available to Minecraft. Video[edit] Basic House[edit] A basic house is anything from a 3x3 cube to a castle. The Cube[edit] The Cube is the smallest house possible. it only uses about half a stack of material and is just a 3x3x3 cube. The Castle[edit] Essentially the cube, except it has battlements containing (imaginary) snipers and cannons. Free-standing Structure[edit] A basic house that is built on flat land and is completely open. House-In-A-Cave[edit] Instead of having to build a house, use what Minecraft provides you, and build your house in a cave or other naturally-generated structure. Lean-to[edit] A house that is part-free-standing house, and part-cave. Space Needle[edit] These houses are basically a large point leading up to a crazy height. Statue[edit]
Tutorials/Navigation In the hunt for new resources or interesting locations to build doom fortresses, many Minecraft players will wander absurd distances. It is quite possible to get lost in these travels, but with a little forethought it is easy to avoid wandering the earth for an eternity in search of your home base. This tutorial will focus on some of the easier ways of navigating Minecraft's landscapes. Video[edit] Spawn Points[edit] Every world has a set spawn point where players are placed near when they first enter the game, and each time they die (see below about beds). Each player can change their individual spawn point by sleeping in a bed, most often in their base. X, Y, and Z coordinates[edit] If you press F3 (Fn+F3 for Mac users), you open up a very useful debug screen of info (press F3 again to close it), which includes your current coordinates in the world. The simplest way to avoid getting totally lost, is to write down the X and Z coordinates of your base. [edit] Directional Guides[edit] [edit]