Everything You Need To Know About Minecraft, In One Place

Minecraft Complete Guide And Walkthrough Updated Aug 3, 2026, 7:12 AM EDT Meg is an Executive Editor and Technical Lead for TheGamer, and has been working within the gaming industry since 2014. She was shortlisted as a finalist for the GameHers Journalist of the Year award in 2022 and was a juror for the BAFTA Games Awards 2026. Some of the games and genres that Meg is an expert in include RPGs, point-and-clicks, puzzle games, and life sims. She has a particular fondness for Yakuza/Like a Dragon and Final Fantasy, especially Final Fantasy 14 (for which she used to run a weekly community column). Table of contents Basic Game Settings General Help Errors And Bugs Multiplayer Miscellaneous Before You Start Choosing A Game Mode Your First Day Crafting Guides Smelting Tools And Gear Home Essentials Mining Guides General Tips Resource Location Guides Farming And Building Guide General Tips Particular Structures Particular Crops Exploration, Combat, And XP Guides General Tips Survival Tips XP Tips Biomes Seeds Structures Combat Special Items Mob Drops Blocks Plants Redstone Guides General Tips Specific Builds Around The House Conveniences Resource Farms Enchanting And Potion-Brewing Guides Enchanting Particular Enchantments Particular Tools Potion Brewing Animals, Monsters, And Mob Guides General Tips Taming And Breeding Animals Other Mob Farms Passive Mobs Hostile Mobs Villagers And Illagers Guides General Tips Trading Raids, Bad Omens, And Zombie Villagers Nether Guides Entering The Nether Surviving The Nether Nether Resources And Items Nether Mobs And Dungeons End Guides Shaders, Textures, And Mod Guides Shaders And Texture Packs Mods, Plugins, And Datapacks Mod Basics Best Mods For... Guides For Specific Mods Skins, Capes, And Custom Maps Open-world sandbox adventure Minecraft has remained one of the most iconic and popular games ever since its launch in 2011. It's a game that brings people of all ages and walks of life together within a world of blocks, and despite its simplicity at first glance, it's proven to be incredibly in-depth. Since its creation in 2011, Minecraft has become a mainstay in the gaming world, keeping its worlds fresh and exciting with regular updates across PC and console. Here is some of the more recent news about Minecraft today: Discord overturned thousands of accidental bans in Minecraft. Read more here. The recently added cushions to Minecraft were causing concern about lag, but it turns out there's no need to worry. Read more here. A leaked memo showed that Microsoft's Asha Sharma wants Minecraft to be like Roblox. Read more here. If you're looking for some extra help during your survival journey, you've come to the right place. Guides for crafting, enchanting, exploration, building, and redstone, as well as information on the hostile and passive mobs, and more. Updated August 3, 2026: We've updated this guide to add recent news stories and handy jump links so you can get to the guides you need straight away. Basic Game Settings If you're only just getting to grips with Minecraft and you need some help going over the basic settings or solving bug issues, we've got you covered. General Help How To Change Skins Tips To Improve PC Performance Most Useful Console Commands And How To Use Them Errors And Bugs Common Errors And Snapshot Guide Common Bugs And How To Fix Them How To See And Use The Debug Screen Multiplayer A Step By Step Guide To Making The Perfect Minecraft Server Everything You Need To Know About Multiplayer Best Multiplayer Servers Biggest Servers You Can Join, Ranked By Player Count How To Cancel Your Realms Plus Subscription Best RPG Servers Best Parkour Servers Best Non-Pay-To-Win Servers Best Maps To Play With Friends Miscellaneous Fastest Speedruns Bits Of Minecraft Lore You Never Knew Moments We'd Love To Experience All Over Again Before You Start Starting a new Minecraft file can be intimidating, especially if you're faced with a lot of options you don't understand. These guides should help fill in some of the gaps so that you can make an informed decision. However, don't forget that the best knowledge comes from experience, and it's totally okay to just start playing and work it out as you go. Choosing A Game Mode How Many Game Modes Can You Play? Things You Didn't Know About Survival Mode Things You Didn't Know About Adventure Mode Everything You Need To Know About Spectator Mode Everything You Need To Know About Hardcore Mode Tips For Surviving Hardcore Mode Your First Day Early Game Tips For Starting A New World Beginners Should Do These Things First Survival Tips For Beginners The Daylight Cycle, Explained Essential Things Everyone Should Build First Crafting Guides It's in the name: Minecraft, so guess what - you'll be crafting! You'll use the various items you acquire to build new tools for yourself and expand your home base (if you choose to have one). These articles detail the basics, as well as how to make specific items that you might need on your adventures. Smelting How To Smelt Best Items To Use As Furnance Fuel Tools And Gear How To Craft A Map How To Craft Fireworks How To Craft Firework Rockets How To Craft A Fishing Rod How To Make A Lantern How To Make A Compass How To Craft A Recovery Compass How To Craft A Spyglass How To Craft And Use A Clock How To Craft And Use A Stonecutter How To Craft Paper How To Craft Leads For Animals How To Find A Saddle For Animals How To Craft Books How To Unlock The Smithing With Style Achievement How To Craft Copper Tools, Chests, And Armor How To Craft Smooth Stone Best Armor Trim Combinations Home Essentials How To Craft A Bed How To Craft And Use A Grindstone How To Craft A Blast Furnace How To Craft Candles How To Craft Concrete How To Carve Pumpkins How To Get Wool And Every Dye To Use How To Craft The Lightning Rod How To Craft Paintings How To Craft Beacons How To Use Note Blocks How To Craft A Copper Golem Most Creative Uses Of Copper Golems How To Dye Your Armor Mining Guides Though craft makes up half the name, you can't forget the Mine in Minecraft. You'll need to delve beneath the surface and into vast networks of caves in order to obtain the resources you want, so we'll help you get there. General Tips Tips For Traversing Caves Cave And Cliff Ore Distribution Guide How To Find Every Ore Easily Tips For Finding Diamonds Every Ore Ranked By Usefulness Resource Location Guides How To Get Copper How To Get Emeralds How To Get Gold How To Build An Iron Farm How To Farm Obsidian How To Get Amethyst How To Get Deepslate Blocks How To Mine Moss Farming And Building Guide A common joke among Minecraft fans is to say there are only two types of players: builders and explorers. Well, the builders should be happy to read these detailed guides which will help you to develop a unique home base and keep your character well-fed. General Tips How To Grow Crops Build Ideas Survival Friendly Builds Tips For Safely Building In Survival Mode Quick Tips To Improve Your Builds How To Build Perfectly Circular Structures Best Crops To Grow Close To Home Particular Structures How To Build An Underwater House How To Build A Two-Story House How To Build Farms, Ranches, And Livestock Areas Particular Crops How To Grow Cocoa Beans How To Make An Easy Bonemeal Farm How To Grow Mushrooms How To Get Honey How To Get Potatoes Exploration, Combat, And XP Guides The more you explore, the more Minecraft rewards you with new mobs, biomes, and items. You'll need to be able to survive on your own, defeat any unruly creatures that come your way, and know what's rare so you can bring it home with you. Needless to say, this is a huge part of Minecraft's gameplay, so we have tons of comprehensive guides to keep you on track. General Tips Tips To Never Get Lost How To Use Treasure Maps The Rarest Blocks And Where To Find Them Survival Tips How To Manage Hunger The Hunger And Saturation Values Of Every Food Item How To Prevent Water From Freezing How To Teleport How To Reduce Fall Damage How To Make Survival More Challenging XP Tips How To Get XP Fast How To Make An XP Farm With A Spider Spawner How To Build An Enderman Farm Best Farms For XP Biomes Every Biome, Ranked Rarest Biomes Best Biomes In Survival Mode Most Dangerous Overworld Biomes Things You Didn't Know About Snowy Biomes Everything To Know About Coral Reefs Everything To Know About Mushroom Fields Seeds Best World Seeds For Bedrock Edition Best World Seeds For The Spring To Life Update Best Seeds For Speedrunning Best Survival Seeds Weirdest World Seeds Best Seeds For PC Structures All Overworld Dungeons, Ranked Best Randomly Generated Structures And How To Find Them Everything To Know About Jungle Pyramids How To Find A Lush Cave How To Find An Ancient City How To Find And Open An Ancient City's Secret Redstone Door How To Take Down An Ocean Monument How To Take Down A Woodland Mansion How To Take Down An Abandoned Mineshaft How To Take Down A Stronghold Combat Tips For Combat And Archery Guide To Tool And Armor Durability Every Arrow Type And How To Get It Every Armor Set And How To Get Them Special Items The Best Rare Items How To Find The Heart of The Sea How To Get A Music Disc Mob Drops Everything To Know About Gunpowder How To Collect Goat Horns How To Get A Creeper Head Blocks Everything To Know About Terracotta Everything To Know About Dripstone What Is Podzol? How To Get Powdered Snow Strongest Blocks Most Blast Resistant Blocks Plants How To Get And Use Dripleaf How To Get And Use Kelp How To Get And Use Glow Berries How To Get And Use Spore Blossoms How To Get And Use Azaleas Redstone Guides Redstone can feel pretty daunting for beginner- or even intermediate-level players. Thankfully, we're here to help. These guides cover how Redstone in minecraft works and how you can use it to power all sorts of helpful machines around your home base. General Tips The Ultimate Redstone Guide How To Use Sculk Sensors To Make Wireless Redstone Simple Redstone Machines To Make Your Life Easier Idiot-Proof Simple Redstone Farms Specific Builds How To Build A Fully Automated Cooked Chicken Farm How To Build A Chicken Egg Farm How To Build A Functioning Well How To Build A Functioning Grandfather Clock For Your Home How To Make A Flying Machine With Slime Blocks Around The House Conveniences How To Make A Water Elevator How To Make A Piston Door How To Make A Super Smelter How To Make An Auto-Sorter Resource Farms How To Make An Automatic Sugarcane Farm How To Make An Automatic Melon And Pumpkin Farm How To Make A Snow Farm How To Make A Wool Farm How To Build A Creeper Farm To Get Gunpowder Enchanting And Potion-Brewing Guides You won't be able to get very far without some reliable enchantments and potions at your side. These guides cover everything you'll need to know in order to take on even the deadliest foes. Enchanting How To Enchant Tools And Armor How To Read Enchantment Table Language Tips For Mending Best Enchantments Worst Enchantments How To Get And Use Enchanted Books Best Ways To Get The Mending Enchantment Particular Enchantments Everything You Didn't Know About The Curse Of Vanishing What Is Soul Speed And How Do I Get It? How To Get The Depth Strider And Respiration Enchantments Particular Tools Best Tool Enchantments Best Pickaxe Enchantments Best Sword Enchantments Best Bow Enchantments Best Crossbow Enchantments Best Axe Enchantments Best Armor Enchantments Best Mace Enchantments Potion Brewing How To Make Potions Best, Must-Have Potions Every Status Effect And What It Does All Potions, Ranked Animals, Monsters, And Mob Guides You won't be alone in your Minecraft journey. The world is filled with passive and hostile mobs. Many passive mobs have unique features that can help you greatly during your adventures and travels. If you aspire to tame every animal in the game or would like to know more about pandas and polar bears, or even those terrifying zombies, check out these guides. General Tips Every Animal, Ranked Rarest Mobs In The Game, Ranked Every Mob And What They Drop Strongest Enemy Mobs Cutest Mobs Tallest Mobs Taming And Breeding Animals How To Tame Every Animal Tips And Tricks For Taming Wild Animals Every Breedable Mob, Ranked Particular Animals How To Get Happy Ghasts How To Tame Foxes How To Breed Horses Horse Stats And Abilities How To Tame And Breed Parrots How To Collect Froglights How To Build A Bee Farm To Get Honeycomb Everything To Know About Bees How To Get A Blue Axolotl Everything To Know About Axolotls How To Tame Cats What Do Armadillos Eat? Other Mob Farms How To Make An AFK Fishing Farm How To Make A Slime Farm Everything To Know About Slimes How To Build A Drowned Farm Passive Mobs Everything To Know About The Allay How To Use The Allay To Collect Items Polar Bears Pandas Llamas Turtles Glow Squids Goats Wolves Hostile Mobs The Wither Zombies Endermen Creepers The Warden Jockeys Phantoms Evokers Most Dangerous Hostile Mobs Villagers And Illagers Guides The more unique mobs of Minecraft are Villagers, as well as their counterparts, Illagers. They both bring in some important gameplay features, from raiding to trading. We have a neat guide on the best villagers to trade with, as well as some information about the patrolling Iron Golem and the mysterious Bad Omen status effect gained from Illager outposts. General Tips Villagers The Iron Golem How To Get A Bell And What It Does How To Make A Village And Populate It Every Villager Workstation And Its Uses Things You Didn’t Know About Villages Trading Every Trading Villager, Ranked Everything To Know About The Wandering Trader Complete Guide To Trading With Villagers Raids, Bad Omens, And Zombie Villagers Everything To Know About Raids Things You Need To Know About Bad Omens How To Cure A Zombie Villager Nether Guides The Nether is a difficult and dangerous dimension to traverse. And yet, if you aspire to complete the game, paying a visit to the underworld is a necessity. With the 1.16 Nether update, there are tons of new mobs, items, materials, and features to be discovered, and so we have a wide range of guides to help you survive the realm of lava and brimstone. Entering The Nether How To Make A Nether Portal Things To Know Before Entering The Nether Things To Do First Surviving The Nether Ways To Get Food In The Nether Guide To Every Nether Biome How To Use A Respawn Anchor Best Nether Base Ideas Nether Resources And Items Everything You Need To Know About Netherite How To Get Netherite Tools Things You Can Build With Netherite How To Efficiently Mine For Netherite Everything To Know About Soul Sand Everything To Know About Lodestone What Is Crying Obsidian? How To Get Blaze Rods And Their Uses Best Loot In The Nether Nether Mobs And Dungeons Hoglins Striders Piglins Piglin Brutes How To Ride A Strider In The Nether How To Barter With Piglins How to Make A Wither Skeleton Farm How To Conquer A Bastion Remnant How To Find And Conquer A Nether Fortress All Nether Mobs, Ranked End Guides The End is the second dimension of the game. Mysterious and very difficult to traverse, it holds some of the best loot in the game, locked within rare and peculiar-looking End Cities. First, however, you need to get through the Ender Dragon. For guides on End Cities and the Dragon herself, this is the right place. General Tips How To Find End Cities Quickly How To Conquer An End City What Is An End Rod? How To Make Your Own End Crystal Everything To Know About Elytras Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do In The End End Mobs How To Defeat The Ender Dragon The Ender Dragon And Her Egg Shulkers Shaders, Textures, And Mod Guides In case you're looking to up your vanilla Minecraft experience with some mods or cosmetic changes like texture packs and shaders, we have a few great recommendations, even for those with low-end PCs. Shaders And Texture Packs How To Install Texture Packs How To Make A Custom Texture Resource Pack How To Install Shaders Everything You Need To Know About The OptiFine Mod The Best Shaders The Best Texture Packs The Best Texture Packs For Bedrock Edition The Best Texture Packs For Java Edition Small Mods To Improve Visual Content Most Realistic Texture Packs Cutest Texture Packs Best Texture Packs Free With Realms Plus Best Low-End Shaders Mods, Plugins, And Datapacks Mod Basics Mods Every Player Needs What You Need To Know About Mods Most Popular Mods The Weirdest Mods Creepiest Mods Underrated Mods Best Mods For... For Better Gameplay New Mobs For Improving The End For Halloween For Star Trek Fans For Pokemon Fans Gun Mods To Use In Creative Mode Science Mods Engineering Mods Space Mods Magical Mods For RPG Fans To Add New Dimensions Mods That Give You Powers Best Nature Mods Best Ocean Mods Best LGBT+ Mods Best HUD Mods Best Furniture Mods Best Audio Mods To Improve Visual Content Best Food Mods Performance And Optimization World Generation Best Farming Mods Best Skyblock Modpacks To Make Minecraft Feel Like Skyrim Quality-Of-Life Best Inventory And Backpack Mods Mods That Add Biomes Guides For Specific Mods Everything To Know About The Life In The Woods Renaissance Mod The Surgery Mod The Fossils And Archaeology Mod Revival Skins, Capes, And Custom Maps Best Custom Skins Best Capes Best Adventure Maps On The Marketplace Best Minecraft Worlds Rarest Skins Best Parkour Maps Most Influential Maps Of All Time How To Get The Creeper Cape