Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
When you've inished playing, you can quit the game by pressing the Esc key to open the
game menu.
Moving Around
Minecraft is easiest to play using two hands, one on the mouse and one on the keyboard. Use
the mouse to look around you and change your direction, sliding it left and right to turn
sideways, and forwards and backwards on the desk to look up and down. To move, you use
the keys W and S for forwards and backwards, and A and D to take a sidestep left and right.
hose keys form a cluster on the keyboard, which makes it easy to switch between them.
You character will automatically jump onto low blocks if you walk into them, but you can
deliberately jump by pressing the spacebar.
For the best view of your world, take to the skies by double-tapping the spacebar. When
you're lying, hold the spacebar to go higher, and the left Shift key to go lower. Double-tap
the spacebar to stop lying and drop to the ground. here's no health or danger in this edition
of Minecraft, so you can freefall as far as you like.
Making and Breaking Things
To break blocks in your world, use your mouse to aim your crosshair at the block you want to
destroy and click and hold the left mouse button. Some blocks are easier to break than oth-
ers. here's a limit as to how far away you can be, so move closer if you can't see chips lying
of the blocks as you attempt to smash them.
he panel at the bottom of the window shows the blocks you can place in the world (refer to
Figure 7-1). You choose between them using the scroll wheel on your mouse, or by pressing
a number between 1 and 8 to pick one (from left to right). Press E to open your full inven-
tory, and you can use the movement keys (W, A, S, D) to navigate around it and Enter to
choose a block, or simply click your chosen block with the mouse.
To position a block, right-click where you would like to place it. You can put a block on top of
another one only if you can see the top of it, so you might need to ly to make tall structures.
You can build towers and rise into the air on them by looking down and repeatedly jumping and
placing a block under you.
Although Python makes it much easier to build things, I recommend that you spend some
time familiarising yourself with how players experience the world. In particular, it's worth
experimenting with how blocks interact with each other. Stone blocks will loat in the air
