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Tip:
Crafting Shortcut
Crafting can seem like a lot of clicking, but one handy shortcut to remember is
that you can left-click to pick up a stack of items such as wooden planks and then
hold down the left mouse button as you paint them into the desired pattern in the
crafting grid. Minecraft does its best to balance the number of items in each grid
position as you go. When you've crafted enough of the final object, don't worry
about dragging all the unused crafting elements back; just press Esc to exit the in-
ventory, and any unused items float to the ground ready to be scooped back into
your inventory.
Tip:
Multi-Crafting
Crafting a bunch of the same item at once is easy. Hold down Shift while clicking
the output slot, and you pick up as many of the same item as can be produced with
the raw materials in the crafting slots.
Now head outside your shelter, select the door, and point your crosshairs at the ground
block that is under the first section of your shelter where you have a true two-space high
tunnel with a roof. Right-click to place the door.
Figure 2.8
shows mine. You can then
right-click to open the door, step through, and right-click once more to close it. Now we're
getting more homely, but we're still missing something vital—light! There are no energy-
saving bulbs in Minecraft. For light, you need a torch fashioned from a stick and a lump of
coal.
