Minecraft Game Mechanics

Convert ingredients into new items with shaped and shapeless recipes. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Smelting

Process ore, food and blocks in a furnace using fuel. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Blasting

Process supported ores and metal equipment faster in a blast furnace. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Smoking

Cook supported foods faster in a smoker. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Campfire Cooking

Cook food without a fuel slot on campfires and soul campfires. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Stonecutting

Convert stone-family blocks directly into selected shapes. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Smithing

Apply upgrades and armor trims with templates at a smithing table. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Brewing

Transform water bottles and potions with ingredients and blaze powder. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Enchanting

Spend experience and lapis to add enchantments to compatible equipment. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Anvil Repair and Combining

Repair, rename and combine compatible items and enchanted books. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Grindstone and Disenchanting

Repair compatible items or remove most non-curse enchantments. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Durability and Repair

Track item wear, Unbreaking checks, Mending and material repairs. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Experience and Levels

Collect experience points and spend levels on equipment operations. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Beacons

Build mineral pyramids to project selected area effects. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Health and Damage

Understand hearts, damage sources, invulnerability time and healing. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Hunger and Saturation

Manage food level, hidden saturation and exhaustion. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Melee Combat

Use attack timing, reach, knockback and weapon attributes. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Ranged Combat

Use bows, crossbows, tridents and projectiles. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Armor and Defense

Reduce damage with armor, toughness, enchantments and shields. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Shields and Blocking

Block directional attacks and projectiles with a shield. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Death and Respawn

Handle dropped inventory, experience loss and respawn points. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Mob Spawning

Apply light, space, biome, cap and distance rules to mob spawning. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Breeding and Taming

Breed animals, raise offspring and tame supported mobs. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Villagers and Professions

Manage beds, job sites, professions, schedules and village links. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Villager Trading

Exchange emeralds and items while managing demand and restocking. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Raids and Omens

Trigger and defend village raids through omen mechanics. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Fishing

Catch fish, junk and treasure under water and enchantment rules. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Farming and Growth

Grow crops, saplings and plants with light, hydration and random ticks. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Light and Darkness

Understand emitted light, sky light, filtering and spawn checks. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Weather

Handle rain, thunder, snow, lightning and biome restrictions. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Time and Daylight Cycle

Convert game ticks into day phases and scheduled behavior. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Dimensions

Understand Overworld, Nether and End environment rules. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Portals and Dimension Travel

Create, link and use Nether and End portals. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Coordinates and Direction

Use XYZ positions, chunks, facing and relative coordinates. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

World Generation

Generate terrain, biomes, features and structures from a seed. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Structures and Loot

Locate generated structures and understand loot-table rolls. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Redstone Power

Transmit direct, weak and strong power through redstone components. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Pistons and Observers

Move blocks and detect state changes for automation. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Hoppers and Containers

Move items between inventories with sided and timing rules. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Minecarts and Rails

Transport players, mobs and items on rail networks. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Boats and Mounts

Travel with boats, minecarts and rideable mobs. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Item Transport

Move item entities with water, ice, hoppers and containers. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Chunks and Simulation Distance

Understand loaded chunks, ticking areas and simulation boundaries. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Commands

Use namespaced targets, coordinates, selectors and command syntax. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Game Rules

Change world-level behavior such as drops, cycles and spawning. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Advancements and Achievements

Track structured progression criteria in Java and Bedrock. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Difficulty

Potions and Status Effects

Apply Peaceful, Easy, Normal and Hard rule changes. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Apply timed effects through potions, arrows, beacons and commands. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Sleeping and Spawn Points

Skip nights and control respawn locations with beds and anchors. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Fluids and Waterlogging

Understand sources, flow, waterlogging and fluid interactions. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Fire and Explosions

Apply ignition, fire spread, explosion power and block destruction rules. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Inventory and Storage

Manage slots, stacking, containers and portable storage. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Maps and Navigation

Use maps, compasses, lodestones and coordinates to navigate. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Note Blocks and Music

Create pitched notes, instruments and redstone-controlled music. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Scoreboards and Teams

Track objectives, scores, displays and team behavior with commands. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Attributes and Equipment

Modify health, speed, damage, armor and other entity attributes. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Teleportation

Move with ender pearls, chorus fruit, commands and portals. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Movement and Fall Damage

Apply walking, sprinting, swimming, gliding and landing rules. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Vibrations and Sculk

Transmit game events through sculk sensors and shriekers. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Copper Oxidation and Waxing

Age copper through oxidation and preserve stages with wax. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Bosses and Endgame

Fight the Ender Dragon and Wither and use their progression rewards. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Loot Tables and Drops

Resolve block, entity, fishing and container rewards from loot pools. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Trial Chambers

Navigate trial spawners, vaults, keys and ominous trials. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Archaeology

Brush suspicious blocks to extract structure-specific loot. This guide summarizes the stable core rules and identifies where edition or version checks are required.

Conduits