With the popularity of Minecraft increasing daily – to date, more than 11m have bought the game and thousands of new players buy it every day – Minecraft For Dummies is on hand to help players make the most of their time within its virtual world. It is also a helpful guide for the many parents who want to get a better understanding of what it is that their children find so absorbing.
In this fun and friendly beginners guide, author Jacob Cordeiro takes readers through the steps required to choose a gaming platform and download the game, as well as covering how to use blocks to build creations, engage in gameplay with others, defend your creations against monsters, and win the game by defeating the Ender Dragon.
It also details how players can the most of each of the three gameplay modes – playing wisely in Survival mode so they can acquire resources to maintain their avatar’s health and hunger; providing tips for playing carefully in Creative mode, using an unlimited supply of resources, the ability to fly, and more; and help to play in Hardcore, in which the difficulty is locked on the hardest setting and forces a player to delete his or her world upon death.
Finishing with the traditional Dummies ‘Part of Tens’ – Ten Helpful Survival Tips – users will quickly grasp how to play Minecraft and create a world they won’t want to leave.
Minecraft For Dummies by Jacob Cordeiro is available in paperback and e-book for £6.99
