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Minecraft Editor Tutorial

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This tutorial is intended to guide you through using Minecraft Bedrock Editor to accomplish a variety of tasks. Before you begin, you should know how to launch Editor, create a project, move around, and switch between the two modes.

Important

The Editor is in early preview and we're working to add more capabilities. It will change significantly as we get feedback from creators like you. Also, the images of Editor in this document might vary a little from what you have on your screen.

In this tutorial, you will learn the following:

  • How to use some of the tools in Editor to accomplish tasks

Requirements

To get started, you need the following:

  • A Windows 10 (or higher) computer with Minecraft Bedrock Editor
  • Keyboard and mouse

Important

Editor is not available on mobile.

It's recommended that the following be completed before beginning this tutorial.

Let's Put a House in a Greenhouse

In this tutorial, we are going to build a glass structure and then copy and paste one of the village houses inside it. The glass structure will be made of two parts - a solid block base and a hollow glass top.

  1. Launch Editor and create a project with seed: 2123293805289839865. You don't have to use this seed, but it spawns you within sight of a village that has a nice variety of buildings and not too many trees.
  2. Close the Welcome screen if it is open.
  3. Go to the World Options menu and turn the Daylight cycle off if you don't want to work in the dark.
  4. Navigate over to the village near coordinates (-161, 68, 171). Hint: try using the grapple teleport (Move the cursor to a distant spot and press G) to get over there.
  5. Find a clear area near the village. A simple village before anything is edited
  6. Open the Brush tool (Ctrl B).
  7. Set the Brush Size to 16 and set the Block Type to something solid, like obsidian. The checkboxes for Hollow and Face Mode should be unchecked.
  8. Click the ground once in the clear space to create a 16 by 16 base. If you're not happy with the placement, you can undo that step with Ctrl Z and try again. An obsidian base is placed with the Brush tool
  9. When you're happy with the base, change the Block Type to glass and check the boxes for Hollow and Face Mode. The size should stay 16.
  10. Click the center of the base to place a hollow glass structure. A hollow glass box is placed on the obsidian
  11. Use the Selection tool (Ctrl S) to select an entire building and some of the ground around it. Hint: If you don't have a favorite Selection mode yet, try using Freeform to select the ground first and then use the resize gizmos to make the selection big enough. Image of a selected house
  12. The selection size should be smaller than 15 blocks so that it can fit inside the glass. To check this, look at the Size section of the Selection tool and confirm that the numbers for x, y, and z are all less than 15.
  13. Copy the selected house (Ctrl C) and open the Paste Preview tool (Ctrl Shift V). Image of how the selection box changes when the selection is copied
  14. Move back over to the glass structure and go inside. A view of the inside of the hollow glass box
  15. Click in the center of the base and use the arrow keys to move the Paste Preview outline so that it is completely inside the glass. Image of a paste preview box inside the glass
  16. Click Confirm Paste. Press Ctrl D to remove the selection box. Image of a house pasted inside a glass box

Let's Put a House in a Greenhouse in the Nether

  1. Select the entire glass and obsidian structure with the house inside that was created in the previous tutorial. Image of a selected glass box containing a house
  2. Copy the selection.
  3. Go to the World Options menu, go to Change dimension, and select Nether.
  4. Inside the Nether, find a clear spot.
  5. Open the Paste Preview tool (Ctrl Shift V).
  6. Click the ground to place the Paste Preview outline. Image of a paste preview in the Nether
  7. Click Confirm Paste. If you don't want to paste more glass boxed houses, press Ctrl D to remove the selection box. Image of a house in a glass box in the nether

Let's Put a House in a Greenhouse in the End, too

  1. With the glass, obsidian, and house structure copied onto the clipboard, change the World Option dimension to the End.
  2. Use Paste Preview to place the house somewhere interesting. A house in glass in the End

What's Next?

Go into Crosshair Mode and place entities into your greenhouse world just like you would in Creative Mode Minecraft. Then, go back into Tool mode and unpause the mobs by going to World Options > Actors > Unpause actors.