Minecraft Basics

Welcome to a community of Minecraft enthusiast.   We want to assist in your transition into the Minecraft world by giving you some information necessary for your journey.   Come along with us… 

Mindcraft CONTROLS for PC Users:

 

W, A, S, and D are for movement

 

The “Space” key is  to jump.

R to respawn at the spawn point.

ENTER to set a new spawn point.

E to open the inventory

F to toggle fog distance.

Escape to release the mouse and open game menu.

1-9 to change the building block type.

Left mouse button to add a block.

Right mouse button to remove a block.

Middle mouse button to copy block type.(Katherine)

 

HELP!!!  What do all the keys mean?    The key pad of your computer serves as your controller. 

   Attack                        Use Item                   Pick Block       

Mindcraft CONTROLS for MAC Users:

Using a Mac laptop and the pre-set control options can be annoying.  I have never played games on the computer (with the exception of solitaire, etc.), so I think I had to customize quite a bit in order to feel comfortable and get started .

I used the arrows for direction (ie: up=forward, left=left, right=right, down=back); I kept the spacebar to jump; Drop=D (makes more sense to me, I guess); I=Inventory (again, makes more sense to me); return key=attack/break/dig, etc.; back/delete=use item.

Once I bought a wireless mouse I had a much easier time looking around in different directions; I decided to make the left click the "attack" button and the right click the button to "use items". It made for faster building, digging, breaking, and zombie killing.  Jenn

Learn the process from a tutorial episode:

Minecraft Tutorial

Understand the environment, the material to be used to produce tools and stay away from darkness.
Secure a safe place to built while you make your material.     Liberata: