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    Hacks for Minecrafters: Master Builder: The Unofficial Guide to Tips and Tricks That Other Guides Won't Teach You
    Hacks for Minecrafters: Master Builder: The Unofficial Guide to Tips and Tricks That Other Guides Won't Teach You
    Hacks for Minecrafters: Master Builder: The Unofficial Guide to Tips and Tricks That Other Guides Won't Teach You
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    Hacks for Minecrafters: Master Builder: The Unofficial Guide to Tips and Tricks That Other Guides Won't Teach You

    By Megan Miller

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    From the New York Times bestselling author of Hacks for Minecrafters comes the most encompassing guide ever to the many amazing builds you can create in Minecraft. Now in paperback for the first time and completely revised and updated!

    With more than 100 million registered players, Minecraft has taken control of gamers all over the world. With Hacks for Minecrafters: Master Builder, you'll be able to take back that control! Now you can craft your world exactly how you want it to look, all while discovering the hidden gems of the game.

    Now being released in paperback, Hacks for Minecrafters: Master Builder has been updated for Minecraft 1.12, the World of Color update that added new function and crafting systems, illusioners, parrots, and building materials like glazed terracotta and concrete.

    In Hacks for Minecrafters: Master Builder, readers will learn how to build the coolest stuff, including an underwater house, a pirate ship, and a fortified castle! Other tips will help gamers:
    • Find the best locations
    • Choose their favorite style
    • Learn how to get started with foundations and walls
    • Become landscaping experts
    • Learn how to decorate their living room
    • And much more!
    Packed with expert tips, cheats, and hacks on planning all types of buildings and with more than one hundred screenshots, Hacks for Minecrafters: Master Builder shows exactly how the experts bring their amazing structures to life, from designing realistic roofs and exteriors to planning crenellated castle battlements. Detailed step-by-step illustrated guides will let every kid follow along to build their very own awesome castles, bridges, and farms and add the decor and landscaping details that bring their creations to life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSky Pony
    Release dateJan 29, 2019
    ISBN9781510743908
    Hacks for Minecrafters: Master Builder: The Unofficial Guide to Tips and Tricks That Other Guides Won't Teach You
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    Megan Miller

    Megan Miller was born in Talara, Peru, and from there grew up in Miami, Barcelona, and the suburbs of London, England. She's also lived in Houston, Austin, NYC, the Hudson Valley, Kentucky, and finally New Mexico. She plays Minecraft daily, and has also spent many hours in the past with arcade game Centipede, the first Castle Wolfenstein shooters, the first color Mac space shooter Crystal Quest, The Sims, Sim City (1-3), City Skylines, Civilization, and more. You can contact her through her website, meganfmiller.com - (see you there!)

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      Hacks for Minecrafters - Megan Miller

      INTRODUCTION

      Half of playing Minecraft is building—building shelters, bases, traps, and farms. Some people like building so much with Minecraft’s blocks that that’s pretty much all they do. Minecraft fans have built amazing things, joining up in teams to build intricate and massive structures like the space shuttle, fully detailed cities with hundreds of buildings, bridges, and parks, as well as epic scenes and buildings from Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, and more. To see some of these, search online for amazing Minecraft buildings.

      For most people, though, building means a simple cube of cobblestone, with a couple panes of glass. Of course, if you’re busy killing zombies and raising cows, building a snazzy home may be on the bottom of your list. You may find it more important to have a protective wall that a creeper can’t explode.

      However, if you have an architectural streak and you want to get started on building awesome homes and buildings in your Minecraft world, this book will show you the tricks the Minecraft experts use, including:

      How to build arches and spheres that look curved

      How to use depth and detail to make your buildings look realistic

      How to use steps, levers, trapdoors, and more for your furniture and amenities

      To help you get started on some no-fail, amazing builds, this book will show you how to plan a basic house and customize it 6 different ways.

      You’ll also find step-by-step guides for building:

      An airship

      A fortified castle

      A glass dome

      A pagoda

      An underwater house

      CHAPTER 1

      GETTING STARTED

      Building in Minecraft can be much more than making a shelter to keep you safe at night. If you like, you can spend time in Creative mode and take the time to build amazing things. In addition to homes, you can build almost anything you can find in the real world.

      Blocks to Build With

      You can basically build with any blocks, of course.

      Traditional building materials. Traditional building materials are stone (including diorite, andesite, and granite), stone bricks, bricks, cobblestone, logs of the six different tree types and their wood planks, and sandstone. There are several variations on some of these blocks, such as mossy stone bricks, polished granite, and chiseled sandstone.

      Traditional building materials that you can craft and find in Survival mode easily include stone, cobblestone, sandstone, bricks, logs, planks, and their variations.

      Other blocks to use. Other building blocks that are a bit harder to get, but make great building materials, are terracotta, glazed terracotta, concrete, glass, and dyed wool. Be careful with concrete powder though, as it has gravity, like sand, and will turn into regular concrete if it comes into contact with water blocks. There are blocks from the Nether (quartz, nether brick, nether wart blocks, and red nether brick) and blocks from the End (purpur blocks and endstone), and the blocks you find in ocean monuments—prismarine, dark prismarine, prismarine bricks, and sea lanterns. But you don’t have to stick with traditional materials—you can use giant red mushroom blocks, dry sponges, anything you want at all. You probably want to avoid building with gravel, concrete powder, and sand, as these can collapse. You should also avoid placing any flammable blocks within 4 blocks of a fire source, like lava. Flammable blocks can spread fire to other blocks and include wood, wooden items like fences, grass, vines, leaves, wool, carpet, hay, coal blocks, and bookshelves.

      You can use the 16 color dyes to craft colorful wool, glass, terracotta and concrete for your buildings.

      Experiment with all of Minecraft’s building blocks. You can repurpose many for other uses. Two trapdoors can be the side arms for a chair; a carpet can cover a table, floor, or chest to add color, End rods can be used as stairs; and a redstone lever can be a sink faucet.

      Basic Building Steps

      The basic steps to follow when you build something are:

      Decide what you want to build. If you can, use photos or pictures as references or for inspiration.

      Decide how big it’s going to be and how much space you need. Draw a simple blueprint or layout on paper.

      Find a location in your world for your build.

      Clear a flat area to start building.

      Create foundations for a building or markers that show where you are placing the front, back, and sides of your building.

      Build! Build the outer general structure first. (For homes and buildings, this would be the walls, floors, and roof.)

      Detail and decorate. Go over your structure, correcting mistakes, making improvements, and adding the details like carpets, banners, and textured slabs that will bring your creation to life.

      Building to Scale

      If you

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