The Advanced Strategy Guide to Minecraft Make Minecraft whatever YOU want it to be!   After you’ve learned to survive in Minecraft, the fun really begins. Minecraft’s advanced features support stunning creativity–and that’s still just the beginning. There are custom-crafted adventure maps, massive multiplayer servers, new trading systems, new societies, and incredible mods that take Minecraft into the far future. Minecraft can be whatever you and millions of other players dream up. There’s only one problem: uncovering all these amazing resources and techniques. Problem solved! They’re all in one great full-color guide: The Advanced Strategy Guide to Minecraft. Don’t struggle with out-of-date web tutorials or bewildering YouTube videos: best-selling author Stephen O’Brien will show you how to do it all!    Build and manage unique Minecraft configurations with their own versions, worlds, resource packs, and profiles    Automate your farming: let a few pistons, a stream, and some redstone do all the dirty work for you    Generate infinite ores on demand–even obsidian    Take control of the mayhem with mob farms: mass-produce your own zombies, spiders, creepers, and skeletons    Build in any style that inspires you: medieval, Victorian, Viking, Japanese, modern, suburban, you name it    Create natural-looking terrain and trees, decorate with 2D pixel art, and build 3D statues    Construct smarter, more efficient power and transportation systems    Take Minecraft into the industrial and nuclear age… even go green with solar energy and wind farms    Add computer systems and robotics control with ComputerCraft and Lua    Create and share exciting adventure maps and learn the secrets of CommandBlocks    Share your creation with the world via pro-quality video and audio    Manage a multiplayer server and create your own trading society    Make the most of powerful plug-ins for anti-griefing and more Stephen O’Brien is an Australian-born writer and entrepreneur now residing in Sydney after too many years in Silicon Valley. He has written 28 books, including several best-sellers. O’Brien founded Typefi, the world’s leading automated publishing system, and in his spare time invented a new type of espresso machine called mypressi. He has played Minecraft since its alpha release and remains astounded at the unparalleled creativity it engenders. He is author of the mega-bestselling The Ultimate Player’s Guide to Minecraft and The Ultimate Player’s Guide to Minecraft: Xbox Edition.  

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1 Become a Minecraft Expert! 2 What’s in This Book 2 How to Use This Book 3   Chapter 1 Getting Started 5 Managing Minecraft 5 Launch Control 6 Mod Management 10 Custom Launchers 11     Adding Mods to MultiMC 15 Modpack Installers 20 The Bottom Line 22   Chapter 2 Automated Produce Farms 23 Make Mine a BUD 24 Automated Cane Farms 27 Automated Collection and Transport 32 Automated Pumpkin and Melon Farms 36 Automated Wheat, Potato, and Carrot Farms 44 Automated Sorting 47 The Bottom Line 51   Chapter 3 Mining and Ore Generators 53 Creating Cobblestone 53 Creating Stone 59 Obsidian Generator 61 The Bottom Line 65   Chapter 4 Mob Farms, Traps, and Defense 67 Evil Mob Farms 67     Spawning Mob Mayhem 68     Building a Water-Based Mob Farm 70     Grinding Mobs and Collecting Drops 73 Dastardly Mob Traps 82     Treacherous Trenches 82     Killer Cactus 84     Indispensible Dispensers 87     Pulverizing Pistons 91 The Bottom Line 93   Chapter 5 Advanced Construction 95 Choosing a Building Style 96     Medieval Style 96         Up Go the Walls! 98         If You Like It, Put a Roof on It! 100     Victorian Style 101         Pitched Roof 102         Complex Roof 104     Japanese Style Building 106     Modern and Suburban Styles 108         Residential Roads 110     Viking Style 111     Egyptian/Desert Style 113     Steampunk Style 114     Elven/Fairy Style 115     Build an Igloo 116 Advanced Decoration Techniques 118 Creating Natural Terrain and Trees 122 Drawing 2D Pixel Art 123 Sculpting a 3D Statue 124     Creating Spheres, Circles, and Arches 127 Building in the Nether and End Regions 129 The Bottom Line 130   Chapter 6 More Power to You 131 Combination Lock 131 Minecart Switches 140 Project:Red 142     Automating a Pumpkin Farm 144     What Else Can Project:Red Do? 148         Core 148         Integration 148         Transmission 150         Transportation 152 The Bottom Line 152   Chapter 7 Empire Building with BuildCraft 155 BuildCraft Core Concepts 155 Pipe Dreams 157 Engines 162     Creating a Power Station 163 Mining Wells 165 Managing Combustion Engines 167 Refining Oil 171 Automated Quarries 172 Blueprints, Building, and Templates 175 More BuildCraft 178 The Bottom Line 179   Chapter 8 Titans of IndustrialCraft 181 IC2E Core Concepts 181 Agricultural Pursuits 183     Crossbreeding Guide 185     Strip Farming for Profit 186     Square Farm Dancing 189     Using the Cropnalyzer 190     Improving Growth with a Crop-Matron 192 IC2E Armor, Weapons, and Tools 193 Generating Energy Units (EU) 195 Mining, Macerating, and More 197     Automated Mining 197     Macerators and More 198 Going Thermonuclear 199 The Bottom Line 202   Chapter 9 Rolling with Railcraft 205 Getting Started 206 Creating Standard Track 208 Reinforced Tracks 212 Boring, Not So 213 Undercutting the Competition 216 More Mods 216     Galacticraft 216     Forestry 217     ComputerCraft 217 The Bottom Line 217   Chapter 10 Recording and Sharing 219 Choosing the Right Software 220     FRAPS for Windows (License Approximately $40) 221     Bandicam for Windows (License Approx. $39) 221     QuickTime Player for Mac (Free with OS X) 222 Hardware Recording Devices 224     AVerMedia’s Live Gamer Portable (RRP $169) 224     Elgato Game Capture HD Recorder (RRP $199) 224 Plotting Camera Paths and Animation 224     Recording Using Camera Studio 227 Overlaying Audio and Titles 227     Editing with iMovie—OS X (RRP $18.99) 227         Titles 228         Adding Audio to Your Movie 229         Exporting Your Completed Movie 230     Editing with Windows Movie Maker—Windows (Free Download) 230         Titling 230         Adding Audio to Your Video 231         Exporting Your Completed Video 231 Publishing to YouTube and Vimeo 231     Uploading Your Video 232     Basic Info 233 The Bottom Line 235   Chapter 11 Building Your Own Adventure 237 Adventure Mode 238 Initial Planning and Implementation 239 So, What’s Your Story? 239 Mastering Command Blocks 240     Breaking Down the Command String 241     Selectors 242     Commands 242     Specifiers 245         Teleporting to a Central Point 245         Using effect Commands 246         Rewarding Players 248     The Comparator 248     The tellraw Command 249 World-Editing Tools and Helpers (Map the Middle Kingdom) 253 Publishing Your Own Adventure (Terrifying Noobs) 254 The Bottom Line 255   Index 257