Minecraft guide

Dimensions

There are 3 types of dimensions in the world of Minecraft. The place where you should spawn immediately, is the overworld.

The overworld is the world where you first spawn in, where all the regular mobs like pigs, zombies, exist. Most of your Minecraft experience will be in the Overworld, and it is the only place where time passes normally.

Here are the other two dimensions.

Nether-Houses generally a world of mobs including zombie pigmen, ghasts, and wither skeletons. The only way to get into the Nether is by creating a portal. A regular portal is a obsidian rectangle which is 4x5, with it vertically standing on the ground. Basically, it should not be lying down. The rectangle should have a 2x4 hole in the middle, leaving the sides to be one block thick. Once this formation is done, you use a flint-and-steel, which you can craft, and set the bottom blocks on fire. The fire should burn for a while, before becoming a purple portal covering the whole hole. The four corners of the portal is not really necessary. Do note that obsidian have to be obtained with a diamond pickaxe, or else you have to use the really funny method of lava and water combinations.

Here is the lava-water way. Put a 3x6 rectangle on the ground with a 1x4 hole. Do make sure that the blocks you use is not flammable, like wood or wool. This time it should be lying down, so it will be one block tall. Put lava, from a bucket, into one side of the hole, and another lava proportion on the other side. Pour a water, also from a bucket onto the block at the very end of the rectangle and wait for the lava to become obsidian. Retrieve the water.

Then, on the left most obsidian block, put four blocks one block above the obsidian, and around it. It should create an empty hole with a obsidian base. Repeat on the other side. Put lava on the other side and pour water on each hole. After both becomes obsidian, retrieve water again. Finally, create an floating platform, by connecting the two top obsidian blocks together with an inflammable block. This should create the base. Then, put another 3x6 rectangle one block above it. This should create a rectangle similar to the one that you started with, but with two obsidian and another two blocks (you put to connect the obsidian) as a base. Pour lava on either sides of the hole, and water on one side.

Next, destroy all the non-obsidian blocks. You should create a formation similar to the one built.

The Nether houses ghasts, wither skeletons, blazes, magma cubes, and zombie pigmen. The real things to beware of in the Nether is the lava, where you must try not to drop into, and ghasts which may bomb you into lava or destroy your portal when you are too close to it. Magma cubes are relatively difficult to find in the Nether, popularly known as the Underworld. Wither skeletons and blazes spawn in nether fortresses, a generated structure explained in next chapter.

The Nether is essential for your adventure in the End. You'll need some blaze rods from blazes.

There is only one way to go to the End. Find a stronghold-another generated structure-which holds an End portal. An End portal is made out of 12 End portal blocks. A End portal block looks like an enchanting table, but the bottom is white, with green and yellow borders. There should be a hole on top where the book in enchanting tables are usually situated.

End portal blocks cannot be broken in survival, with the same concept as bedrock.

End portal blocks can be located by randomly finding a stronghold, or using an Eye of Ender. Eyes of Ender can be crafted with an Ender pearl in the middle, and blaze rods around it.

When you get an Eye of Ender, right click it while standing on the surface. It should disappear from your inventory and fly up into the air with purple particles. Notice that it moves in a particular direction. The Eye of Ender will drop after 3 seconds, of which you can pick it up. Follow the Eye and repeat.

Make sure you have at least 13 Eyes of Ender. It is not really necessary, but recommended.

If the Eye finally sinks into the ground, do not try to pick it up or throw any more. Instead, dig down about 3 blocks away from the part where the Eye went into. This is because the End portal always resides above a lava pool. Notice that one of the Eyes is sacrificed because of this.

If you really want to have your lost Eye back, you can risk digging on the spot for the Eye. Once you find it, be sure to mine 3 blocks to the side, then continue digging down.

You should find the portal in a 5 by 5 order, with the corners removed and the 3x3 centre removed. There fore, there should be 3 portal blocks on each side of the square, and a 3x3 hole in the middle. The lava pool is the same size as the hole and is two blocks below.

There should be a silverfish spawner near the steps leading up to the portal. Make sure to destroy it if you want no disruptions.

Notice that there are two types of Ender portal blocks. They are the filled ones, and empty ones. Filled ones should have a squarish version of the Eye of Ender inside the hole, and empty ones just have the hole.

This is why you need more Eyes. You have to right click each empty End Portal block with an Eye of Ender. It is possible to even have no filled End portal blocks! Therefore, just in case, get at least 13, 1 sacrificed if it goes into the ground, and 12 for the 12 End portal Blocks.

You are allowed to build a portal by yourself in Creative mode.

The End houses Endermen, and the Enderdragon. The Endermen still has the same characteristics as in the Overworld, and do not attack you unless you look at them or you hit any of them.

The End consists of only one island made out of End stone. The island has several obsidian towers which have a bedrock top. The bedrock top has a floating crystal, which has the ability to heal the Enderdragon. Each Enderdragon can only heal from one healer at one time. You can tell by a white ray connecting it and the crystal. The way to destroy healers is to hit it, in any way. Even you if you punch it it would die.

Killing a healer creates an explosion. Therefore it is recommended to use a bow and arrow to shoot the healer. Destroying the healer that the Enderdragon is using at that moment would cause slight damage to it. The dragon's health can be seen in a purple bar above it which is labeled "Boss's health".

It is recommended to come with enchanted equipment, as it is likely that you may die very quickly, etc. Make sure you have a bow and enough arrows, and either diamond or iron equipment.

You cannot exit the End in any way, except for dying or killing the Enderdragon. Killing it would garner several XP and a End portal would appear right below where it died. The End portal is similar to the one you create in the Overworld, but there will be a small 3 block high tower on the middle of it. It will have two bedrock blocks, and a special Ender egg on top. Ender eggs cannot be obtained in any way, not even in creative.

Currently, Ender eggs have no specific purpose, and has the same concept as sand, where it falls when there is no supporting block. Make sure you have some cheap blocks like cobblestone, NOT SAND OR GRAVEL to make your way to the Egg.

Once you get the egg, which is actually not compulsory, you may jump into the portal where you can watch a conversation between two people.

Then you return to spawn.

Once defeating the Enderdragon, you have technically finished the game. Have fun being bored.