Operation Manual

Minecraft For Dummies, Portable Edition
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✓ Experience: The green Experience bar fills up when you
collect experience orbs. These orbs appear naturally
whenever you defeat monsters, smelt items in a furnace,
breed animals, or mine any ore except iron or gold. When
the bar is full, a number appears or increases over it,
indicating your experience level. You can spend levels
with anvils (detailed in the bonus chapter, available for
download at www.dummies.com/go/minecraftfd) or
enchantment tables (detailed in Chapter 6), but you will
lose them if you die.
✓ Hunger bar: This bar represents your food supply.
The emptier the bar, the hungrier you are. Hunger is
an important concept to understand, so it’s covered in
Chapter 3.
Carefully monitor the Health and Hunger bars, and organize
your inventory slots for easy access.
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