The Advanced Strategy Guide to Minecraft

by Stephen O'Brien

The Advanced Strategy Guide to MinecraftMake 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 Don't struggle with out-of-date web tutorials or bewildering YouTube videos: best-selling author Stephen O'Brien will show you how to do it all!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."

288 pages, Paperback

First published September 25, 2014

Reviews

[Ginnie · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best minecraft guide I have found.

[Ethan Powers · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Advanced Strategy Guide to Minecraft by Stephen O’ Brien is more the just a video game guide. At 252 pages it discusses over a dozen topics and in depth. It was worth the buy and time to read. It included tons of Mining, Farming, and advanced construction tips. I have spent hours of my time read and duplicating this on to my screen. It is all 100% legit and fun to see. I also love how it goes into certain mods you can download so you can to some extra work on your own Minecraft account. It talks about Buildcraft, IndustrailCraft, and Railcraft work. The ting that throws it off the roof is the act that he devoted a chapter to building your own adventure and how to make testing systems with Redstone and a list of over 25 restore machine. There are password locks and light switches, and the list goes on and on. I would recommend this book to any Minecraft fan. It is worth the read and worth the price of $25 dollars. It is one of my favorite of all time and if you don’t get it you are missing out. I rated this book 5/5 because of the author, Stephen O’ Brien. He is so contempt and straight forward with his writing even if you are a noob you can understand what to do and follow through easily. This truly a masterpiece of writing and I might even read it again for the fun of it.

[Brendan]

Don't go buying those little pretty guides to Combat or Redstone or what have you for the minecraft nerd in your life. When your loner 10 year old wants to really build automated stuff this is the guide.

I finally understand heaps of things now, all I need is some kind of sleep cycle disrupting substance that will allow me to stay up 6 hours a night building automated farms with hopper+minecart pick up systems leading to automated furnaces.

oh man, I just want to play minecraft now.