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__**Using the keys and mouse.**__

Keys
Use the **WSAD** keys to move. The **space bar** will allow you to jump. use the **Shift key** to sneak and **E** to open you **inventory**. You also have the option to customise keys using the **Options Menu**. The **Shift + F2 keys** will allow you to take screenshots of your work, which will save as png files.

The Mouse
The mouse allows you to interact with the world you are in. You can destroy blocks by looking at them and using the **left mouse button**. You can pick up and place **blocks** by using the **right click**. You will need **tools** for some blocks. You can **gather dirt, sand, clay**, **logs** and **gravel** without tools.

=Crafting= Block Recipes Item Recipes

Through **crafting** you can turn basic materials into **tools** and **weapons**. Each player comes with a **2x2 crafting grid**. To use a **3x3 crafting grid** you will need a **workbench** (scroll down). This will allow you to create a greater variety of items.

In order to **craft** an item the **materials** must be arranged in the right pattern for that item. The **slots** aren't as important as getting the pattern right. You can craft up to 195 items in **Minecraft.**

Work Benches
You will need a **work bench** to **craft** some of the more advanced items in **Minecraft**. Creating a **work bench** will give you a **3 by 3 grid**. Click on your work bench to use it.

Game Mode
You are now ready work in Game Mode also known as **Survival Mode**, to craft a variety of tools, search out materials, create a **shelter** (at least two blocks high) for the night and some torches to keep you safe. (Watch out with sand as it has **gravity** which can work for you for making **mob traps** or against you by squashing you if you dig below it.) Another use of **sand** is to combine it with gunpowder to create **TNT.**

Use your new work bench to **craft** the following **tools**. You will need to go in search of the materials. You will need to use some of these tools in order to mine the materials for the others.
 * Use the wooden planks to craft sticks. You will need these for most tools and weapons as well as torches. [[image:abcict/Screen Shot 2012-11-20 at 11.10.46 AM.png]] || Wooden pickaxes are not very durable, but are good for digging dirt and stone which you will need to create more durable tools and weapons.[[image:abcict/Screen Shot 2012-11-20 at 11.10.51 AM.png]] || Swords are good for slaying mobs.[[image:abcict/Screen Shot 2012-11-20 at 11.10.57 AM.png]] ||
 * Stone Pickaxes are good for mining rocky materials and last longer than wooden pickaxes.[[image:abcict/Screen Shot 2012-11-20 at 11.11.03 AM.png]] || Shovels are best for destroying dirt, sand, grass, clay and gravel.[[image:abcict/Screen Shot 2012-11-20 at 11.11.07 AM.png width="226" height="134"]] || Axes help you to gather wooden blocks more quickly.[[image:abcict/Screen Shot 2012-11-20 at 11.11.11 AM.png]] ||

Making Doors
You may want to make a window and a door for your house. Doors can be made by placing 6 planks into the 3x3 workbench. Most mobs cannot open or destroy doors without redstone help with the exception of **zombies** when difficulty is set to high. More on making doors...


 * **With Wooden Planks** || **With Iron Ingots** ||
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Making Glass
This is a bit more advanced. You will need a **furnace** to **craft glass**. Glass blocks can be made by smelting blocks of sand and glass panes by smelting it in a furnace, and 6 glass blocks will make 16 glass panes. More on working with glass...



Brewing (Advanced)
You can **brew** special **potions** that will give you special powers in **Minecraft**. To do so you will need a **brewing station**. You will need **1 blaze rod** and **3 cobble stone blocks** to make one. Right click on the **brew stand** to **brew a potion**. Here is a recipe list of potions for you to try.

Smelting
You can **smelt** or cook **blocks** and items (There are over 300 items in Minecraft and counting)into other items in **Minecraft**. You will need a burnable material such as **charcoal, logs, wooden** **planks** or **coal** to do so as well as a **furnace**. The **furnace** can be made with **cobblestone**.

As you craft more items you will begin to need more storage. You can craft chests to store you items. These are basically blocks for storage and a singel chest can store a maximum of 27 stacks of items or blocks or 1728 blocks total. Large chests hold more. for more information on chests, click here.

=Farming= You can gain food in a safe way by farming it. The following items can be farmed in Minecraft: Wheat, Potatoes, Carrots, Pumpkins and Melons.

Hoes
You can use a variety of **hoes** to **plow** the land to create **farmland**. This is an example of a **wooden hoe** which is easy to make and can be used 33 times before they break.

You can also **craft diamond, stone, iron** and **stone hoes** which will last longer.

Seeds will only grow where there is light. You can add **torches** to provide light day and night. Crops grow better near water, but is is not required for them to grow.
 * Melon** and **pumpkin seeds** grow on vines that will **spawn** on adjacent **farmland** as well, so it is good to leave an empty row of farmland on either side of them.

It is always a good idea to build a fence around your crops so that mobs don't get in and trample them. Use the shift key to avoid trampling your own crops when moving over them.

Collecting and Planting Seeds
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 * Water** is usually easy to find on the **surface** and **underground.** If you destroy **blocks** that are in water's path, it will spread. Water can be transported from one place to the next using **buckets**. **Lava sources** that touch water will make **obsidian**. **Lava** that isn't a source which touches water will only turn into **cobblestone**. If you are on f**ire** you can jump into water to extinguish it. Water puts out fires.

Controlling Water with Red Stone Dust
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 * Fire** can be made using flint and steel on a block that is flammable or by lava touching a flammable block. Players and mobs that touch fire will catch fire.
 * Iron ingot** and **flint**

Use **iron ingot** to create buckets using the pattern above.
 * Buckets** can be used to hold and carry **milk, water** and **lava**. Right click a Lava or Water block to pick it up in a bucket. Right click on a cow to pick up Milk. To put the liquids down again just right click on a spot that is empty.

Irrigation Ideas
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Harvesting Crops
Wheat can only be harvested when completely grown. If you try to harvest it earlier you will only get seeds. You will know that it is fully grown when its tips are a gold colour. Harvesting wheat will give one wheat and more seeds. Melons give on or even more melon slices. You can pick up your pumpkins when they are harvested.

=Survival=

Torches
You should surround you buildings, caves and farms with **torches**. They are easy to build with a piece of **coal** and a **stick** each.
 * Torches** are important to keep **mobs** away as they spawn in dark areas. They can also help in farming.

Mobs
There are two types of **mobs** in **Minecraft**, friendly and unfriendly. Friendly mobs will run if attacked. Unfriendly mobs will attack as soon as they see you. For more information on mobs click here.

Special materials you should know about
Redstone Dust: This can be used to trigger switches by creating a red stone dust wire used in circuits and traps. It is a renewable resource and a brewing and crafting ingredient. It can be obtained by mining redstone ore with an iron pick axe or better.

Diamond Gems: are scarce in Minecraft. The only mineral that is scarcer is Emerald Ore. Diamond Gems can usually be found 7-10 levels above bed rock. You can obtain it by mining diamond ore. It is very durable and is good for crafting armour and tools. They can only be mined with an iron or diamond pickaxe. Diamond pickaxes are the only type that will mine obsidian.

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