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[Pages:14]BUILDING A MINECRAFT

City

by Sarah Guthals, PhD

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BUILDING A MINECRAFT? CITY

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Contents

Introduction

2

About Minecraft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

About This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

About You . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

About the Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Beyond the Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Project 1: Entering Minecraft

5

Registering a Minecraft Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Purchasing and Installing Minecraft . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Playing the Game . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Logging in and operating the main menu . . . . . . . . . . 8

Starting your first game in SinglePlayer mode . . . . . . . . 9

Understanding basic controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Watching the Heads-Up Display (HUD) . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Project 2: Prebuilding Strategies

17

Building Different Minecraft Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Gathering Materials for Construction: Creative Mode . . . . . 19

Setting up the inventory in Creative mode . . . . . . . . . 20

Using the Creative mode menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Organizing your materials for Survival mode . . . . . . . . . 24

Obtaining a good inventory in Survival mode . . . . . . . . 25

Organizing your materials in Survival mode . . . . . . . . 28

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Getting Ready to Build in Portable Edition . . . . . . . . . . 29 Getting around the structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Using scaffolding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Using ladders to scale your structure . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Location is Everything . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Building on fun landscapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Reshaping the landscape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Leveling mostly flat surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Leveling large structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Wire Framing the Build on Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Wire Framing the Build in Minecraft . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Project 3: Building Your Dream Home 43

Building Your First Building . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Clearing your building site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Choosing your materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Building walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Building a ceiling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Building a door . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Adding light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Building Your Dream Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Protecting Your Dream Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Thinking about New Designs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Project 4: Building Your Own City

69

Planning Your City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Choosing a theme for your city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Sketching your city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Making Space in Minecraft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Outlining your city . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Connecting the paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

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Starting Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Building a tall building . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Making a moat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Building a simple house . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Using Commands to Build . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Fill command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Clone command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Playing around with commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Making Your City Unique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Project 5: Building City Attractions

93

Fancy Fountains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Simple one-block fountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Tall fountains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Tall fountains without walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Wide fountains without walls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Water Slides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Multiple Story Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Roller Coasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Rail types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

The structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

The track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Making Your City Unique . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

INTRODUCTION

SO YOU WANT TO LEARN HOW TO BUILD LIKE A PRO IN MINECRAFT? That's a great idea!

Building in Minecraft can be a ton of fun. Minecraft gives you an endless world to build, with infinite resources in Creative mode and a challenging resource collection in Survival mode. Whether you are on Minecraft PC or Minecraft PE, you can build homes, skyscrapers, fountains, and even water slides and roller coasters! This book gives you strategies for building and ideas for making an awesome Minecraft city that you and your friends will want to live and play in.

ABOUT MINECRAFT

Minecraft is a world made out of blocks. You can play in two modes: Creative and Survival.

In Creative mode, you have an infinite inventory of resources at your fingertips. You can fly and you never die. You can build anything you want to build, and you have a world that never ends to build it in.

In Survival mode, you have to live by the rules of the world. You have to find resources by breaking down trees to build tools to help you mine for metals and rocks. You use furnaces and crafting tables to turn raw materials into usable ones, and you have to defend yourself against creepers, skeletons, endermen, and spiders at night.

Either way you play, you will have fun and get to be in control of your very own world.

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