Welcome!
Welcome to MCStarter! MCStarter is all about bringing the Minecraft community the best help they can get! My mission is to create awesome, free, and easy-to-use Minecraft content such as starter worlds, skin templates, and texture templates. To find any of these, you can click on them here, or view the navigation bar and hover or the downloads tab and choose a page, or click the downloads tab and click a link on the download page list. Visit me on YouTube here!
Skinning: Creating player skins for Minecraft isn't hard, and it's great to start with if your beginning to get into low resolution art. But before you start making the skin, you need an image editor that handles transparency, such as Paint.NET. Next, open up a skin template in your editor, and begin editing the skin. After you've made it how you'd like, you can add noise if you'd like some extra detail, or just leave it as is. Then head over to Minecraft.net and click the Profile tab, the upload your skin and it's on your character! You could also share the skin with the community at The Skindex, or Minecraftskins.info. There are some other sites, but you can find those on your own!
Texturing: Making texture packs for Minecraft is much harder than creating player skins. You need to edit all the blocks, and you can edit some other things such as the GUI or mob skins if you wish. For this, you will need an image editor that handles transparency, such as Paint.NET. Next, open up your minecraft.jar file, and drag out the images you'd like to edit. The terrain, or blocks, is located in the terrain.png file. Next, open them up in your image editor, and edit them how you want. There are a few different resolutions that you can use for Minecraft, 8x, 16x, 32x, 64x, 128x, 256x, and if your crazy enough, 512x. So, you can leave the image size how it is for 16x, otherwise, resize it however you wish. After you're done, send the files you edited into a .zip file, not in a folder, just by themselves, and put it in the texturepacks folder in the .minecraft folder. You can share these textures on a few websites, but I recommend just sticking it on Minecraftforum.net.
Surviving: Surviving is what Minecraft was made for! All you need to do is open up Minecraft, click the Singleplayer tab, click Create a new world, then name it however you wish and go! I recommend collecting about 25 pieces of wood, then making a shelter or hidey-hole before nightfall, because at night, monsters come out and try to kill you, and when you die, all of your items lay at your death point until either you get them, or they disappear after a while. There are tons of tutorials on YouTube if you'd like a better description. I also have some Starter Worlds available for download if you need a head start in Minecraft. :)
Skinning: Creating player skins for Minecraft isn't hard, and it's great to start with if your beginning to get into low resolution art. But before you start making the skin, you need an image editor that handles transparency, such as Paint.NET. Next, open up a skin template in your editor, and begin editing the skin. After you've made it how you'd like, you can add noise if you'd like some extra detail, or just leave it as is. Then head over to Minecraft.net and click the Profile tab, the upload your skin and it's on your character! You could also share the skin with the community at The Skindex, or Minecraftskins.info. There are some other sites, but you can find those on your own!
Texturing: Making texture packs for Minecraft is much harder than creating player skins. You need to edit all the blocks, and you can edit some other things such as the GUI or mob skins if you wish. For this, you will need an image editor that handles transparency, such as Paint.NET. Next, open up your minecraft.jar file, and drag out the images you'd like to edit. The terrain, or blocks, is located in the terrain.png file. Next, open them up in your image editor, and edit them how you want. There are a few different resolutions that you can use for Minecraft, 8x, 16x, 32x, 64x, 128x, 256x, and if your crazy enough, 512x. So, you can leave the image size how it is for 16x, otherwise, resize it however you wish. After you're done, send the files you edited into a .zip file, not in a folder, just by themselves, and put it in the texturepacks folder in the .minecraft folder. You can share these textures on a few websites, but I recommend just sticking it on Minecraftforum.net.
Surviving: Surviving is what Minecraft was made for! All you need to do is open up Minecraft, click the Singleplayer tab, click Create a new world, then name it however you wish and go! I recommend collecting about 25 pieces of wood, then making a shelter or hidey-hole before nightfall, because at night, monsters come out and try to kill you, and when you die, all of your items lay at your death point until either you get them, or they disappear after a while. There are tons of tutorials on YouTube if you'd like a better description. I also have some Starter Worlds available for download if you need a head start in Minecraft. :)