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The Beginner’s Guide to Command Blocks in Minecraft

Minecraft is one of the best ways to introduce young and new people to coding. Command blocks are easy to learn and use, and Java programming is right around the corner with Minecraft mods and Bukkit plugins. It’s also just a…

Anthony Heddings Sep 5th, 2015

Make Building in Minecraft Easier with WorldEdit

Minecraft is a game all about blocks, and the beauty of it is that you can build anything your heart desires. Building in Minecraft is like building with digital Legos, but, like Legos, building takes a long time and is ofte…

Anthony Heddings Aug 8th, 2015

How to Run a Spigot Minecraft Server for Customized Multiplayer

Minecraft’s native LAN support is great for running games on the fly, but if you want a dedicated, customized server, Spigot is the way to go. Spigot is built on a plugin API called Bukkit, which makes customizing your gamep…

Anthony Heddings Aug 4th, 2015

How to Play Minecraft from a Flash Drive for Block Building Fun Anywhere

What’s more fun than the creative block-building in Minecraft? Building whenever and wherever you want with a portable Minecraft installation on a flash drive you can take with you. Read on as we detail how to configure a por…

Jason Fitzpatrick Apr 22nd, 2015

How to Upgrade Your Old Minecraft Maps for Seamless Transitions to New Biomes

Upgrading Minecraft to get to the newest features is always fun unless it breaks your old maps and creates huge and ugly artifacts across them. Read on as we show you how you can take an old Minecraft map and bring it into a…

Jason Fitzpatrick Apr 8th, 2015

How to Unlock The Difficulty Of A Minecraft Map

Minecraft 1.8 introduced a new feature map feature: the ability to permanently lock the map’s difficulty setting. While it’s a great way to encourage you to play without cheating it’s also frustrating if the difficulty is loc…

Jason Fitzpatrick Apr 3rd, 2015

Add Dungeons, Ruins, and Treasure Hunts to Your Minecraft World with MCDungeon

If you’ve grown tired of exploring the vanilla Minecraft world and the thrill of stumbling upon the tiny dungeons or sprawling mineshafts is gone, we’ve got just the thing for you: enormous procedurally generated dungeons cou…

Jason Fitzpatrick Mar 18th, 2015

The Parents’ Guide to Minecraft

Minecraft is and, for the foreseeable future, will remain one of the most popular video games among children. Behind all those millions upon millions of downloads are more than a few curious parents; read on as we help clear …

Jason Fitzpatrick Mar 11th, 2015

How to Speed Up Your Minecraft Experience with Minecraft Land Generator

While you’re exploring your Minecraft world the game is devoting a huge amount of resources to creating it around you. Generating these pieces ahead of time significantly decreases the resource load on your CPU while playing…

Jason Fitzpatrick Feb 7th, 2015

How to Keep Your Minecraft Items When You Die (and Other Clever Tricks)

It happens to even the most cautious explorer: you’re far from home, you die, and all your precious loot is left sitting in a pile far, far away. Tired of losing your loot? No problem. Read on as we show you how to make your …

Jason Fitzpatrick Jan 29th, 2015

How to Customize Your Minecraft Splash Screen Text

Minecraft is a game that begs for creative play and customization of elements big and small. Leave no detail unattended to by following along with our simple tutorial to customize the yellow splash screen text found on the ga…

Jason Fitzpatrick Jan 23rd, 2015

How to Find Your Minecraft Saved Games Folder on Any OS

We were setting up a new Minecraft server at HTG headquarters to play the awesome Captive Minecraft survival mode game (which uses vanilla Minecraft, no mods required), when we realized we didn’t have an article about how to …

Lowell Heddings Jan 19th, 2015

How to Edit Your Minecraft Maps with an External Editor

In a previous tutorial we took WorldEdit for a spin, a fantastic in-game editor that lets you perform advanced changes to the Minecraft landscape while playing the game. Today we’re looking at MCEdit a powerful external ed…

Jason Fitzpatrick Dec 8th, 2014

How to Edit Your Minecraft World In-Game and On-the-Fly with WorldEdit

While the primary allure of Minecraft is building there are some tasks that are quite tedious and practically beg for a copy and paste button. WorldEdit is that button (and so much more). Read on as we show you how to superc…

Jason Fitzpatrick Dec 7th, 2014

How to Render Your Minecraft Creations in 3D Glory with Chunky

If you’re looking for a way to 3D render and preserve your favorite Minecraft creations, big or small, as beautiful images then look no further than Chunky. Whether you want to immortalize a whole city or a tiny cottage, it’s…

Jason Fitzpatrick Dec 6th, 2014

How to Render Your Minecraft Worlds Google Earth-style with Mapcrafter

If you’ve ever had the urge to zoom around your Minecraft world like it was a Google Earth map, Mapcrafter is for you. Read on as we show you how to use this powerful little program to take your entire Minecraft world and ren…

Jason Fitzpatrick Dec 5th, 2014

How to Search Your Minecraft Worlds with AMIDST

Mushroom biomes, remote villages, temples buried in desert sands, ice spike villages: whatever rare structure or biome that eludes you will elude you no more armed with AMIDST, an external Minecraft tool that’s like having a …

Jason Fitzpatrick Dec 4th, 2014

How to Select a Remote Minecraft Host

You read over the local-host server guides, you even set up a local server (or two), but you’ve realized that your home network isn’t fast enough for you to share your server with friends. No worries, today we’re takin…

Jason Fitzpatrick Dec 3rd, 2014

How to Run A Local Minecraft PE Server for Fun and Persistent World Building

Minecraft Pocket Edition (PE) is every bit as popular as the PC edition. Today we’re taking a look at how to run a lightweight Minecraft PE server to keep your worlds preserved and available (even when the device they were bu…

Jason Fitzpatrick Dec 2nd, 2014

How to Run a Simple Local Minecraft Server (With and Without Mods)

While it’s easy enough to share a Minecraft map with other local players on your network, it’s nice to be able to run a dedicated server so people can come and go without the original game host loading up Minecraft. Today…

Jason Fitzpatrick Dec 1st, 2014

How to Overhaul and Expand Minecraft with Game Changing Mods

The fundamental allure of Minecraft is the ability to build anything and make the game whatever you desire it to be. Today, we’re taking a look at mods that help you in that endeavor by adding extra dimensions, major game cha…

Jason Fitzpatrick Nov 30th, 2014

How to Pump the Minecraft Eyecandy with Shaders

The simple and blocky styling of Minecraft is endearing to many fans of the game, but if you’d like a more sophisticated 3D look with realistic lighting, reflections, and enhanced graphics you can achieve the shimmering 3D pa…

Jason Fitzpatrick Nov 29th, 2014

How to Enhance Minecraft’s Core Mechanics with Mods Big and Small

Minecraft is a fantastic game but there is always room for improvement. Today we’re taking a look at mods big and small that tweak the user interface, biomes, villages and more in Minecraft for a more robust and feature rich …

Jason Fitzpatrick Nov 28th, 2014

How to Manage Minecraft Instances and Mods with MultiMC

Whether you’re a mega modder, someone looking to keep your Minecraft versions and their accompanying worlds in a nice orderly fashion, or you want to totally silo your kids’ Minecraft experience to keep their worlds separ…

Jason Fitzpatrick Nov 27th, 2014

How to Optimize Optifine for a Smooth Minecraft Experience

Even if you’re not bent on heavily modding Minecraft, every player should install Optifine. Today we’re going to dig into the guts of Optifine and highlight all the ways you can use it to optimize your Minecraft experience …

Jason Fitzpatrick Nov 26th, 2014

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