New Downloadable Content is available! Access it from the Minecraft Store button on the Main Menu.
If you play this game in High Definition mode, you can have up to four players in split-screen on the same console!
Connect extra controllers to your console and press START on them to join a game at any point.
Alter the gamma settings to make the game brighter or darker.
If you set the game difficulty to Peaceful, your health will automatically regenerate, and no monsters will come out at night!
Feed a bone to a wolf to tame it. You can then make it sit or follow you.
You can drop items when in the Inventory menu by moving the cursor off the menu and pressing{*CONTROLLER_VK_A*}
Sleeping in a bed at night will fast forward the game to dawn, but all players in a multiplayer game need to sleep in beds at the same time.
Harvest pork chops from pigs, and cook and eat them to regain health.
Harvest leather from cows, and use it to make armor.
If you have an empty bucket, you can fill it with milk from a cow, or water, or lava!
Use a hoe to prepare areas of ground for planting.
Spiders won't attack you during the day - unless you attack them.
Digging soil or sand with a spade is faster than with your hand!
Eating cooked pork chops gives more health than eating raw pork chops.
Make some torches to light up areas at night. Monsters will avoid the areas around these torches.
Get to destinations faster with a minecart and rail!
Plant some saplings and they'll grow into trees.
Pigmen won't attack you, unless you attack them.
You can change your game spawn point and skip to dawn by sleeping in a bed.
Hit those fireballs back at the Ghast!
Building a portal will allow you to travel to another dimension - The Nether.
Press{*CONTROLLER_VK_B*} to drop the item currently in your hand!
Use the right tool for the job!
If you can't find any coal for your torches, you can always make charcoal from trees in a furnace.
Digging straight down or straight up is not a great idea.
Bonemeal (crafted from a Skeleton bone) can be used as a fertilizer, and can make things grow instantly!
Creepers explode when they get close to you!
Obsidian is created when water hits a lava source block.
Lava can take minutes to disappear COMPLETELY when the source block is removed.
Cobblestone is resistant to Ghast fireballs, making it useful for guarding portals.
Blocks that can be used as a light source will melt snow and ice. This includes torches, glowstone, and Jack-O-Lanterns.
Take caution when building structures made of wool in open air, as lightning from thunderstorms can set wool on fire.
A single bucket of lava can be used in a furnace to smelt 100 blocks.
The instrument played by a note block depends on the material beneath it.
Zombies and Skeletons can survive daylight if they are in water.
Attacking a wolf will cause any wolves in the immediate vicinity to turn hostile and attack you. This trait is also shared by Zombie Pigmen.
Wolves cannot enter the Nether.
Wolves wont attack Creepers.
Chickens lay an egg every 5 to 10 minutes.
Obsidian can only be mined with a diamond pickaxe.
Creepers are the easiest obtainable source of gunpowder.
Placing two chests side by side will make one large chest.
Tame wolves show their health with the position of their tail. Feed them meat to heal them.
Cook cactus in a furnace to get green dye.
You'll get the latest info on this game from 4J Studios and Kappische on twitter!
Impress your friends by posting screenshots of your Minecraft creations to Facebook from the in-game Pause menu!
Read the What's New section in the How To Play menus to see the latest update information about the game.
Stackable fences are in the game now!
minecraftforum has a section dedicated to the Xbox 360 Edition.
Music by C418!
Notch has over a million followers on twitter!
Not all Swedish people have blonde hair. Some, like Jens from Mojang, even have ginger hair!
We think 4J Studios has removed Herobrine from the Xbox 360 console game, but we're not too sure.
There will be an update to this game eventually!
Who is Notch?
Mojang has more awards than staff!
Some famous people play Minecraft!
deadmau5 likes Minecraft!
Do not look directly at the bugs.
Creepers were born from a coding bug.
Is it a chicken or is it a duck?
Were you at Minecon?
No-one at Mojang has ever seen junkboy's face.
Did you know there's a Minecraft Wiki?
Mojang's new office is cool!
Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition broke lots of records!
The location for Minecon 2013 has not yet been decided!
.party() was excellent!
Always assume rumors are false, rather than assuming they're true!