Ultimate App Guidebooks

Minecraft is a game that lets creativity flow. There are different ways to play the game. One can work towards achievements, build forts to protect yourself from nocturnal creatures, or one can create whatever one wants. The premise of the game is incredibly simple: to build, you need to smash some blocks. If you smash trees, you get wood. Depending on the type of stone you are smashing, that type of stone gets added to your inventory to build. This game could be an excellent resource in classes about building and design or even just managing what you have. Players can play by themselves or with other. This is not a mindless video game. This is a game where kids will have to think if they want to show off some awesome creation.… (meer)

I am very new to Minecraft, having played it a couple of times on PC and once on the tablet. I thought this book would be a good introduction, and it was, but only in certain ways.

The book seems to assume you've played or read enough to know basic controls, and that's fine, but the tips it gives you past that, at least in house building, surviving at night and fighting common enemies, are not much more detailed than a very beginning guide. While the chapters had some interesting tidbits, the whole thing read like a webpage guide - not really much depth to anything at all.

As an "Ultimate" Players Guide, it really is Ultimate only for the first time player. You'll very quickly outgrow it.… (meer)

This guidebook is certainly not ultimate. It does, however, provide a solid and fairly quick introduction that would get new players efficiently and excitedly engaged in the minecraft world. It only touches on many of the items and creatures in the world. I would have expected more on crafting. There aren't even simple charts on how to make the most basic tools. It also has no mention of the End or how people get started with playing on group servers. If you are gifting the game to a new person, maybe give them this, too. If you've played the game already or are looking for specific information, stick to the online resources for the game.… (meer)