Minecraft: The Official Annual 2014

by Jane Riordan (Editor)

You're alone in a strange new world full of hidden dangers. With just your bare hands to mine with, you only have minutes to find food and shelter before darkness falls and the monsters come looking for you ...

This annual celebrates the limitless possibilities of Minecraft. Packed with step-by-step instructions for exciting builds and projects, tips from the experts, including the game's creator Notch himself, cool things to make, games to test your brain power and codes to unravel, it's everything Minecraft fans have been waiting for.

This might just be the one thing good enough to drag them away from their screens this year!

Genres: Childrens

72 pages, Hardcover

First published September 10, 2013

Reviews

[Shannon Byrne · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is really aimed for the younger generation who play minecraft. However, for someone who is just getting introduced to the world of minecraft (like me), this book does hold basic and essential information. It has lots of helpful tips, general information, and building ideas. Unfortunately the second-half of the book is full of games that could appeal to anyone but mostly to children. In addition this book is too short and does not really go into great depth of the possibilities that can occur in the world of minecraft but overall it is a good starting point for new gamer's.

[Kamil · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book in my opinion, makes me nostalgic sometimes...

[Eloise · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am sure that this book is aimed at those who are younger and play minecraft. However, I have been playing it for a long time and can say I should have gotten it earlier as I'm sure I wouldn't be hiding in a famous dirt house in my first day is this virtual reality world. It has lots of helpful tips, building ideas and everything to spark a kids imagination. I would recommend this to anyone looking for geeky info on the game and anyone interested in why their kid is so obsessed with this game.

[Marc · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good, very basic intro to Minecraft. It gave me enough to get started on, but I quickly found myself bouncing over to the Minecraft wiki at Gamepedia to get filled in on much greater detail. The second half of the book is devoted to games (word searches, etc) based on Minecraft. Not useful for me, but could be fun for some...

[Sonic Alpha · Rating 4 out of 5]

While aimed at younger Minecraft players, this book is filled with essential information (even if it is quite basic).

As a new player, I found the build ideas quite interesting (especially the monster spawn farm, which is something I wouldn't have thought of doing).

Sadly it's a little short, even for a children's annual.

[Michael Anderson · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is just a summary of the creatures, blocks, and recipes for crafting increasingly complex objects. I get the impression the "annual" simply updates game capabilities and algorithms. Interesting, short read. Not a lot to it.

[Tim · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you know anything about minecraft I really wouldn't bother, a very basic introduction.

And if you aren't a fan of minecraft not sure why you would buy the book!!

[Aidan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This had really fun games so I loved it. Amazing!

[Seth Mottram]

Sssssss ahh creeper

[Blue Elephant]

really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really really good to read