Three books about Minecraft coming before the end of the year

By Phil Owen

The day you’ve been waiting half a decade for will finally arrive on October 10 when two Minecraft books are released into the wild. Yep.

Those two books are The Minecraft Beginner’s Handbook and The Minecraft Annual. The former is said by the publisher to contain “everything you need to know to make it through your first few days alive.” The latter is about how to make cool stuff.

Then, in December, we will get The Minecraft Redstone Handbook, which is, well, about redstone.

The publisher, Egmont, says they’re making the very real, physical books look like the ones in the game, which is fun. Here’s what that means:

There are two other Minecraft handbooks listed for February 2014 release on Amazon, one on combat and one on construction. Expect a ton more if these do reasonably well.