Hacks for Minecrafters: The unofficial guide to tips and tricks other guides won’t teach you – Guide Review
Recently we reviewed a fun children’s novel, that depicts the life of Steve, the main character of the Minecraft games. Even though the novel also presented the reader with many subtle tips and tricks to survive the square world of Minecraft, there is still a lot that potential players could learn and should learn in order to become a professional adventurer, creator or hoarder.
Note: As our site is based in Belgium, we were given the Dutch version of the book. This means that the writing style might differ a tad at times from the original style. The book is also available in English and probably certain other languages as well.
Hacks for Minecrafters: The unofficial guide to tips and tricks other guides won’t teach you, might be one of the longest titles you’ve ever seen for a guide, that wants to teach you the right knowhow to become a professional Minecraft player. Whilst the franchise has been going on for several years now, the hype is also quite real for the younger gamers and a guide might help these players learn about the loads of different crafting options as well as the hordes of enemies that lurk around every corner during the long nights.
The book/guide divides itself in different chapters, each tackling a different portion of the game. If you’re already a seasoned warrior, you can simply take a look at the mining and crafting chapters and vice versa. Overall, you will notice that the book is not only structured in chapters, but it also starts out with the easier things, gradually going to harder subjects. This makes the guide easily accessible for those who are completely new to the Minecraft universe.
Megan Miller, who composed the guide, chose for fairly simple and straightforward writing. The material is quite dry, which is quite nice seeing there aren’t too many distractions in the book itself. Everything proves to be clear to learn the ropes quite fast.
To make sure a guide becomes truly useful, one needs to use a decent amount of pictures that show ingame content or at least the goal you wish to achieve. Hacks for Minecrafters does a great job in a documenting all the steps you need to undertake in order to learn a certain facet of the game, by the usage of clear screenshots.
With the many wiki pages about Minecraft the guide may become obsolete to those who play the PC version, or those that would rather skim through wiki pages in order to bookmark the items they need the most. That being said, a paper version is always fun as well as fun to put on the shelf alongside your gaming collection.
Conclusion
Overall there aren’t many things to say about the guide itself, perhaps only that it was released quite late. Even though the Minecraft hype is still alive, it’s a lot more quiet than it was when the PC version was initially released. I reckon the early adopters will either be quite pro by now, or that they have laid their pickaxe to rest. Nonetheless, if you’re new to the Minecraft universe, this might be another nifty tool to place in your inventory.
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