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Good Resources

  1. Helpful links
  2. Quality of Life Mods
  3. Tutorial Resources
    1. General Minecraft tutorials
    2. Gameplay with this mod
      1. Tutorial
      2. Gameplay without intentional teaching
  4. Beginner's Guide
    1. Create a Good World
    2. Game Control
    3. Finding Trees
    4. Commands

Helpful Links

Quality of Life Mods

Here are some mods that can improve your game experience. There are guides about installing and upgrading mods.

  1. Client side, which you can use in both a single-player and multiplayer game:

    • Presence Footsteps (Fabric, NeoForge port): Footstep sound enhancement mod. If the Fabric version of the mod isn't working, select Default sound pack in the resource pack menu of your game. If the mod does not support your game version, you should use this resource pack instead: Presence Footsteps: Remastered Sounds Pack, put it in the %appdata%\.minecraft\resourcepacks folder.
    • Just Enough Items (Fabric and NeoForge): Item and recipe viewing mod, far better than the similar recipe book feature in the original game (but this mod isn't 100% accessible with Minecraft Access, you need some vision to use it).
    • Sound Physics Remastered (Fabric and NeoForge): Provides realistic sound attenuation, reverberation, and absorption through blocks. I'm sure this mod consumes resources, so install it only when you're confident in your PC hardware.
    • Jade (Fabric and NeoForge): Shows/speaks more detailed information about what you are looking at when you press the narration key. You must remap the Jade keys to not conflict with this mod's numpad mappings. There is also a fully accessible in-game config menu to change what types of information the mod will narrate.

  2. Server side, which you can only use in a single-player game (unless the multiplayer server admins add them to the server as well):

    • Tree Harvester (Fabric and NeoForge): Harvest trees and huge mushrooms instantly with an axe. It's a common scenario in Minecraft that you can't reach the logs and leaves at a higher place when standing on the ground, with this mod, you won't bother yourself with getting yourself up to reach them.
    • Carry On (Fabric and NeoForge): Allows players to pick up, carry, and place some blocks (such as Chests) and animals without breaking blocks or guiding animals with a leash.
    • FTB Ultimine (Fabric): This mod can make you operate on the same type of blocks around you by operating only once, like harvesting crops, mining a vein, and chopping trees.
    • Simple Voice Chat (Fabric and NeoForge): A proximity voice chat for Minecraft.

Tutorial Resources

General Minecraft tutorials

These resources teach you how to play Minecraft but lack detail about controlling using this mod since they’re playing without this mod. It is recommended to learn how to use this mod first, then learn how to play the game. Minecraft has a long history since 2009, and there are many tutorials about it, almost every question has already been answered several times on the Internet. But due to this long history, there is lots of outdated information about this game as well, keep in mind to add game variant and game version as keywords while searching. (example: java 1.21)

  • Wiki website in multiple languages, continually updated: Minecraft Wiki by hardworking volunteers. Has details and guides on everything about Minecraft, it also has many text tutorials on it.
  • Tutorial video series on YouTube in English, last updated 2024-06-21: Minecraft Survival Guide (Season 3) by Pixlriffs. A tutorial series on survival mode in Minecraft 1.20 (and later on 1.21), includes a lot of topics.

For a specific question, you can:

  • Ask AI, no kidding, AI + search engine platforms like Perplexity, Bing AI and Google Gemini do know a lot about Minecraft since they are fed with a huge amount of knowledge about it.
  • Read the corresponding wiki page. The wiki describes every detail of a topic, but you may find it's too lengthy.
  • Traditional way, search on search engines like Google.

Gameplay with this mod

These resources are tutorials and showcases about how to play Minecraft with this mod (many thanks for making them, creators), resources are ordered in reverse chronological order, first is newest.

Tutorial with this mod

  • Game play video series on YouTube in English, last updated 2024-06-22: The TrueBlindCraft Guide Series by TrueBlindGaming. A tutorial series to help visually impaired/blind players who use the MineCraft Access mod to play MineCraft. Playing in Minecraft 1.20. Includes world creation, tree finding, navigation, and more.
  • Building tutorial video on Bilibili in Chinese (no English subtitles), uploaded 2023-07-01: 一个全盲视障者玩家的基建经验，来教盲人小伙伴们如何修房子 by 红马尾战士紫月sama. A building tutorial about how to build a basic square shape house with this mod.
  • Installation tutorial video on Bilibili in Chinese (no English subtitles), uploaded 2023-05-06: 【我的世界·MC】视障辅助MOD安装与使用教程 by 红马尾战士紫月sama. The tutorial includes mod installation, game launching, and brief instructions on mod usage and game playing. Partially outdated, tolk is now installed automatically, and this mod doesn't need the fabric-api mod as a dependency for now, see the setup guide for full current instructions in text form.
  • Installation tutorial video on YouTube in English, uploaded 2023-03-21: How to Install Mine Craft Access, a mine craft java mod for the blind by Logic Pro X Gaming. A tutorial includes mod installation and game launching. Partially outdated, tolk is now installed automatically, and this mod doesn't need the fabric-api mod as a dependency for now, see the setup guide for full current instructions in text form.

Gameplay with this mod without intentional teaching

Beginners Guide

Hi, I'm Boholder, a player and mod developer of Minecraft. First of all, I'm sighted, but that didn't stop me from being bored by this game the first time I played it. I didn't know how to play it, except to break and collect blocks, rise myself very high by stacking blocks underneath me then jumping off to die, and to be attacked by monsters to die when it comes to night. Boring, and a bit of scaring because there are monsters at night, this is my first impression of Minecraft.

One day I accidentally discovered a Minecraft forum when I was surfing the web, and the interesting posts on this forum made me realise that this game wasn't that simple. I followed the posts, tutorials to learn to play this game, read every page of the wiki site, and play the game in single player mode. This game became my favorite game. Later I decided it was too lonely to play alone, I started playing in servers, posted in forums, attending events, made quite a few friends (some of whom I'm still in touch with). One of the reasons I chose to major in software engineering was because I wanted to write mods for this game, this game has really impacted my life. I hope I can share some joy of Minecraft with you through this mod. Ok, enough nonsense, so... where do we start?

Create a Good World

You can learn this part with the following resources:

Because Minecraft's world generation is randomized, you may run into the difficulty of trying to generate multiple worlds, but all of their spawn locations are bad. You can search good world generation seeds on Google. And set them when you're creating single player worlds. Be sure to include the game version and Java Edition in your Google search. I highly recommend you lower the difficulty of the game to get a better experience, especially if you're new to the game, such as changing the difficulty to Peaceful to avoid monster spawning.

Game Control

You can learn this part with the following resources:

Minecraft is a first-person 3D game, its control design is similar to other first-person games, you need to control your in-game character with keyboard AND mouse (don't worry, this mod provides pure keyboard controlling replacement). If you have some usable vision and can see the game screen (can distinguish the individual blocks that make up the world), it is recommended to play with keyboard and mouse. If you’re unable to see the game screen, it is recommended to use a full-size keyboard which has the numeric keypad on the right.

You can move around with W A S D, jump with space, crouch with ctrl, sprint with shift (these are default keybindings). A first-person game means the game screen shows from the viewpoint of your in-game character's eyes. You can rotate character's view (or camera, in industry term) smoothly with mouse. The term of this mouse controlling system is Free look (also known as mouse look). This type of control might be unfamiliar to you if you haven't played similar games before, it's sort of like controlling a tank, moving and looking is separated as two operations, your can operate them at same time. The direction you're facing is your front, so if you want to go back, turn your head 180 degrees to look back then press W to move forward, or press S to move backward while you still looking at front.

You can target at (adjust view with mouse until the target is at the center of the view) things you're interested in and interact with mouse click. Some operations require continually pressing keys, like pressing W to move forwards, or pressing the left mouse button to break blocks. You can learn vanilla game controls on corresponding wiki page (ignore the F3 key) or read keybinding settings in game. Controls provided by this mod are described in mod manual pages: Camera Controls, Mouse Simulation.

Finding Trees

You can learn this part with the following resources:

Trees consist of log blocks and leaves blocks, we need log blocks as a resource for crafting. Although each tree has a straight log block trunk and a canopy made of leaves blocks, the height and shape of the tree is randomly generated; some short trees will have leaves that come down low to the ground and enclose the logs two or three layers (as TrueBlind encounters in his guide episode 2), and some taller trees may have logs which float up high that you can't collect from the ground (they're used to mimic tree branches). If you’re targeting at a tree, you will hear the mod speak log block or leaves block.

How to move your character to find trees? First get to a proper biome that has trees in it at spawned by making new worlds, or by using the /locate biome forest and /tp x y z commands to find and teleport to it. Then move around to see if you can encounter a tree. You can use TrueBlind's reference point method to remember coordinates as a teleport target when you're lost in the world. If you can no longer walk forward, you can pick up the mouse and move it horizontally. You can also keep pressing one of the camera horizontal control keys to turn your head around, or press A or D while walking to move left or right. All of these actions are to change the part of the world you’re viewing.

Once you find a log block, you can use the POI Marking feature. When you’re targeting a log block, press Ctrl + Y to mark that log block type, the POI feature will only hint for the log blocks that are around you with sounds, instead of hinting preset POI blocks. When you no longer want to find trees, press Ctrl + Alt + Y to cancel the marking, you don't need to target the currently marked target when canceling.

More convenient features for finding surrounding trees will be introduced in the future.

Commands

You can learn this part with the following resources:

Some commands are very convenient when you're playing single-player worlds. You can use them to gain advantages or to improve your game experience. Remember to turn on Allow Cheats option when you create the world.

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