The Visual Guide to Minecraft


Book Description

Annotation 'The Visual Guide to Minecraft' is written with younger players in mind and offers page after page of engaging age-appropriate content. It is packed with pictures, descriptions, and easy-to-follow projects for building everything from simple shelters to awesome redstone contraptions. After purchasing the book, readers can download for free four video collections, each containing three to five minute segments that step viewers through popular 'Minecraft' projects.




A Visual Guide to Minecraft®


Book Description

Dig into Minecraft® with this (parent-approved) guide full of tips, hints, and projects! A Visual Guide to Minecraft® is written with younger players in mind and offers page after page of engaging age-appropriate content about the game. The book is packed with pictures, descriptions, and easy-to-follow projects for building everything from simple shelters to awesome redstone contraptions. After purchasing the book, you get access to more than three hours of free video that step you through engaging Minecraft® projects, from building a farm to shooting off fireworks. You’ll discover how to Construct a quick shelter to help you survive your first night. Craft and enchant items, and make potions. Build nether portals and safely make your way around the nether. Create fantastic redstone projects, from automatic doors and light sensors to TNT cannons and fireworks launchers. Furnish your buildings with lights, appliances, paintings, flowerpots, and fireplaces–and add perfect finishing touches. Make and manage efficient farms. Customize Minecraft® with mods, skins, and resource packs. Join a server and even host a game. Minecraft® is a trademark of Mojang Synergies/Notch Development AB. This book is not affiliated with or sponsored by Mojang Synergies/Notch Development AB.




The Visual Guide to Minecraft


Book Description

Dig into Minecraft® with this (parent-approved) guide full of tips, hints, and projects!




The Unofficial Guide to Engineering in Minecraft®


Book Description

Why do people build with arches? Why do we use stone in some places and wood in others? What's a foundation? How do you plan a road or construct a bridge? The answers to these questions can help gamers in Minecraft and in the real world! Through building their own structures and systems in Minecraft, young readers and gaming fans will learn about the past and present of human engineering, with a vision toward the future.




The Unofficial Guide to Minecraft Redstone


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Discover the different uses for redstone ore in the hit game Minecraft. Readers will learn all kinds of tips and tricks! STEM sidebars connect game play to real-world applications.




The Unofficial Guide to Minecraft(r) Technology


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Technology--methods that use science to solve problems and the tools used to solve those problems--is a big part of our world. In a different way, it's a big part of the Minecraft world too! Players can use technology such as redstone dust and components to create many things, from levers and other simple machines to complicated working elevators and more! Full-color illustrations and detailed tips will lead readers to a greater understanding of both the game and the greater (real) world.




The Book of Echoes


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Brixton 1981. Sixteen-year-old Michael is already on the wrong side of the law. In in his community, where job opportunities are low and drug-running is high, this is nothing new. But when Michael falls for Ngozi, a vibrant young immigrant from the Nigerian village of Obowi, their startling connection runs far deeper than they realise. Narrated by the spirit of an African woman who lost her life on a slave ship two centuries earlier, her powerful story reveals how Michael and Ngozi's struggle for happiness began many lifetimes ago. Through haunting, lyrical words, one unforgettable message resonates: love, hope and unity will heal us all.




Minecraft: Guide to Survival (Updated)


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The definitive, fully illustrated guide to survival in Minecraft is now completely revamped with 100% new information for the latest version of the game. Learn how to survive and thrive in Minecraft’s most popular mode! Stock up your inventory, build a base and get ready to survive the night with Minecraft: Guide to Survival—the only book you’ll need to take your survival skills to the next level. Discover how to find resources, craft equipment, protect yourself from hostile mobs and so much more. Also includes expert tips on how to survive in the Nether and the End.




The Ultimate Player's Guide to Minecraft


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Provides readers with tips, techniques, and strategies for Minecraft, including how to register for the game, customize the experience, and create new worlds.




The Unofficial Guide to Minecraft(r) Environments


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You never know where you're going to land when creating a new Minecraft world! You might spawn in snowy plains with polar bears, plentiful ice, and few trees. You might find yourself in an old-growth taiga filled with huge spruce trees. You might even get lucky and spawn into a badlands biome full of abandoned mineshafts and gold ore! Many of the Minecraft environments echo real-world biomes with their own distinct ecosystems of plants and animals. Readers will learn more about both in this in-depth, intriguing book.