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Minecraft Tutorials PS4

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I have been playing Minecraft since it was in alpha testing on PC.  It is a great game that is as simple or complicated as you want it to be. If you want to get a bit more complicated here are a couple of basic Minecraft Tutorials to get you started.  For my full Minecraft playlist click here.

Minecraft Tutorials

My Redstone repeater set up. It’s not a complicated as it looks.

Railways

The first introduces you to Minecraft’s rail system.  It is a great way to gad about in Minecraftia and will earn you a trophy if your mine cart takes you 500m away from it’s start point.  It took me ages to get this one as rails are fairly resource heavy.  In the video I just look at the basic rails and mine carts, what they do and how to use them.

Railways and Hoppers

This Minecraft tutorial shows you how to use hoppers to unload minecarts, a brilliant way to get all that mining material back to base with out having to walk all the way.  Freeing you up to max out your digging time.

Minecraft Tutorial

A sticky piston door in progress

Sticky Piston Doors

Sticky pistons are great fun to work with and have all sorts of uses, in this tutorial I show you how to build a 4 block entrance to your house, castle, condo, palace etc to give it something cooler than just a wooden door with a lever.

Redstone Repeaters

Redstone has always been a bit of a nightmare in Vanilla Minecraft.  Mods like Tekkit for PC made it much more accessible and less of a pain.  It is unlikely that the PS4 Version will get modded in this way so we have to make do with what we’ve got.  This Minecraft tutorial is a gentle introduction to how repeaters work and the kinds of things they can do for your build.

Minecraft Tutorials

Minecraft Steampunk and Skyrim Texture Packs

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Minecraft SteamPunk

Minecraft’s Steampunk texture pack is just brilliant.

MineCraft Marmite

Minecraft is the current Marmite of games (you probably have to be a Brit to get that reference) basically you either love it or hate it.  I have been playing with blocks since 2010, first on PC and now on PS4.  There are very few other games that compel me to dig holes for hours at a time, however all this digging has a payoff, you can build whatever you like.  Just like Lego the real joy of Minecraft is taking basic blocks and constructing your own unique world.

Building Blocks

Although my efforts over the years have been unambitious (castles, underground citadels, underwater homes) others have created scale models of St Paul’s Cathedral and the Starship Enterprise.  The modding community have come up with mechanics that allow you to build rockets, complicated machinery and even play in my little pony land.  Entire adventure maps have been build and the ingenuity and thought that goes into some of them is staggering.  Sadly consoles do not lend themselves to mods very readily and as a result we will not get to play as a colorful little horse.

Texture Treasure

What we do have though are some excellent texture packs that change the way out creations look and give extra design possibilities, there’s even one that makes things look a bit Lego!!  The newest additions to the world of textures are the Minecraft Steampunk and Skyrim packs.  Only 79p from PSN they add new look blocks and mobs to the party.  I popped a couple of videos below that look at these packs individually.

Minecraft Skyrim Texture Pack

In the Minecraft Skyrim Demo level the rebuilding of Whiterun is brilliant.

Fus Ro Minecraft

The Skyrim texture pack allows you to create you own Eder Scrolls levels.  The monsters have been re-skinned to look like the monsters from Bethesda’s massive game and the testificates (friendly people that inhabit Minecraft) have been changed to look like Orcs, Nords and Elves.  Most wonderful of all is that the pack comes with the Skyrim soundtrack and I must say that was my favourite part of the game.

So Steampunk

The Minecraft Steampunk pack is just cool. The blocks have an industrial look, trees are metallic and have cogs and gears as cross-sections, windows are portholes and torches gas lamps.  The monsters have a robotic look as do the pigs, sheep and cows.  There is an incredible attention to detail in the design and as a result this is now my go to pack.  Pop a pumpkin on your head and try not to laugh out loud at the result!

Console Minecraft

I spoke in a previous video that I believe due to the lack of mods Minecraft has a limited appeal on console, however innovative texture pack like these will extend people’s interest for now.

 

Minecraft Steampunk Texture Pack

Minecraft Skyrim Texture Pack

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